Re: [boost] Announcing boost dependency analyzer

Subject: Re: [boost] Announcing boost dependency analyzer
From: Antony Polukhin (antoshkka_at_[hidden])
Date: 2013-07-24 03:47:51

2013/7/23 Jens Weller <JensWeller_at_[hidden]>

> > Gesendet: Dienstag, 23. Juli 2013 um 13:36 Uhr
> > Von: "Mathias Gaunard" <mathias.gaunard_at_[hidden]>
> > An: boost_at_[hidden]
> > Betreff: Re: [boost] Announcing boost dependency analyzer
> >
> > On 23/07/13 12:08, Jens Weller wrote:
> > > Hello to the boost community,
> > >
> > > I'd like to announce the release of a small tool, that allows you
> analyze the dependencies in boost.
> > > It is based on bcp, requirement is that you have bcp build and well a
> version of boost to analyze installed.
> > >
> > > Simply select the boost directory (the tool also might find
> BOOST_ROOT) and the location of bcp, and the tool will start.
> > > This will take a little time, depending on your machine, on my
> multicore intel ist 90 seconds - 2 minute.
> > > The tool will store this information into a database, so that with the
> next start, this will be a lot shorter.
> >
> > This is probably the biggest problem of this tool.
> >
> > AFAIK bcp doesn't distinguish between header dependencies, source
> > dependencies, link dependencies, test dependencies and documentation
> > dependencies.
> Not really, but I could. There will be a nother release very soon, as I
> found that a bunch of libraries are not covered by maintainers.txt,
> my current source for feeding bcp.
>
> I found 6 libraries (+ lexical_cast) which aren't covered through
> maintainers.txt, most prominent mpi and system.
>

I've merged maintainers.txt from trunk to release branch. This must fix at
least some of the issues. But Boost.MPI and boost.System are still missing.

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Best regards,
Antony Polukhin