Re: [boost] Announcing boost dependency analyzer

Subject: Re: [boost] Announcing boost dependency analyzer
From: Daniel James (daniel_at_[hidden])
Date: 2013-07-23 17:24:44

On Tue, 23 Jul 2013, at 12:08 PM, Jens Weller wrote:
>
> What libraries might be missing? I'm reading the libs from
> maintainers.txt, which isn't all the boost libs.
> For example, lexical_cast is missing, and function_types is twice in
> there. (C&P error or missing library?)

Looking at the file's history it was inserted in the wrong place the
first time, and then was later added in the right place, apparently not
noticing the existing entry.

Sometimes the idea of what is a library, or part of a library, is quite
fluid. Lexical cast is often seen as part of 'conversion', similarly
'math' is sometimes considered a collection of libraries itself. You
might have better luck considering the new modules, as some will contain
multiple libraries, and at least one will contain none, but still be a
dependency.

'maintainers.txt' was never intended to be a list of libraries, but a
list of who's responsible for various parts of boost. A better list of
libraries is possibly the one used for the website:

http://www.boost.org/doc/libraries.xml

To get the list for a specific version you need to filter based on
'boost-version', and the optional 'boost-min-version' and
'boost-max-version' tags. After modularization the idea is to store this
data within the modules, although the complete details will have to be
stored somewhere, so it might be possible to keep that file up.