Re: [boost] Request for comments on super-project workflow doc

Subject: Re: [boost] Request for comments on super-project workflow doc
From: Peter Dimov (lists_at_[hidden])
Date: 2014-01-05 08:11:25

JOAQUIN M. LOPEZ MUÑOZ wrote:
> Em 05/01/2014, às 01:38, "Peter Dimov" <lists_at_[hidden]> escreveu:
>
> > In principle, I've always argued that libraries should be designed in 
> > such a way so that adding support should not require including a header, 
> > but that's not the path of least resistance and if one doesn't 
> > specifically keep that requirement in mind, it's rare to see it 
> > satisfied. (And it's not always possible.)
>
> This is what forward headers are for, right?

Nope. You'll still have a dependency to the module in which the forwarding 
header resides. Unless we create a dedicated module to contain all 
forwarding headers, but this has its own problems.