Re: [boost] [modularization] What do we do with "glue" headers?

Subject: Re: [boost] [modularization] What do we do with "glue" headers?
From: Bjørn Roald (bjorn_at_[hidden])
Date: 2013-10-19 13:19:06

On 10/19/2013 06:59 PM, Daniel James wrote:
> On 19 October 2013 17:40, Andrey Semashev <andrey.semashev_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>> On Saturday 19 October 2013 18:23:54 Mathias Gaunard wrote:
>>> On 19/10/13 12:22, John Maddock wrote:
>>>> A good example would be the serialization lib: a simple dependency
>>>> tracker would show this up as a dependency to a large part of Boost, but
>>>> in fact that's not true: in the vast majority of those cases there is no
>>>> such dependency unless you actually want to use both libraries together
>>>> and do so by including the "glue" header.
>>>>
>>>> So where does the glue header belong?
>>>
>>> In a submodule of the library that depends on both the rest of the
>>> library and serialization.
>>>
>>> I don't see any need for optional dependencies here.
>>
>> IMHO, having glue headers in separate repositories is very inconvenient.
>
> We could set it up so that a single repo could contain multiple
> submodules (i.e. a module for dependency checking is not the same
> thing as a git submodule).

agree,

I am not sure I like using the term submodule though, it sort of imply 
it is part of something, and thus that something have the properties of 
the part, hence we do not get rid of the dependency.

Why not just call them separate components, or modules or something 
else.  They just happen to live in the repository of the library they 
can add features to if they are used.

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Bjørn