Re: [boost] Releasing Boost Dependency Analyzer 1.1

Subject: Re: [boost] Releasing Boost Dependency Analyzer 1.1
From: Andrey Semashev (andrey.semashev_at_[hidden])
Date: 2013-08-10 04:10:37

On Friday 09 August 2013 12:20:13 Jens Weller wrote:
> Hello boost community,
> 
> a short notice that I just have released the version 1.1 of my dependency
> analyzing tool for boost. For now I have only managed to get a proper
> Windows Version, Linux Version will follow later.

I think, there's mistake in your description of how to read the graph (or the 
graph itself):

The center is the part of boost that is widely used by other libraries, or how 
somebody on reddit phrased it "everything in the center is worth looking at".

While I think any library in Boost is worth looking at, things like Log, Pool, 
Wave and Math are pretty close to the core of the graph, and I'd consider them 
more as leaf libraries (e.g. Log isn't used by any other Boost library to my 
knowledge). At the same time Ref, StaticAssert and ResultOf are placed on the 
outskirts while they are clearly more widely used. That being said, some 
libraries are rightly placed close to the center, so it looks like accounting 
for dependencies on some libraries is not working.