Re: [boost] [modularization] proposal and poll

Subject: Re: [boost] [modularization] proposal and poll
From: Julian Gonggrijp (j.gonggrijp_at_[hidden])
Date: 2014-06-03 11:30:07

Peter Dimov wrote:

> Julian Gonggrijp wrote:
>> Thank you for this contribution, Peter! Ideally the HTML report is generated from the latter plaintext, of course.
> 
> The next version of the program I posted has the option of generating HTML directly. You've probably seen the output. If not, do look at a few modules; it's good to have an idea of what our future automated downloader would do when you tell it to download, say, smart_ptr (in the present state of Boost).

Great, I will have a look at it when I'm back in a more programmer-friendly environment. That will take a few more days, please bear with me in the meanwhile. ;-)

> 
>> In order for your program to provide input for the automated downloader, I think it would have to provide information at a coarser level of detail, i.e. entire submodules.
> 
> But it does provide the information on a submodule level. It just goes into more detail to explain the dependency, but this additional output can be trivially suppressed. :-) 

Excellent!