RE: [Boost-Users] Boost 101?

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-01-24 11:41:24

At 06:07 AM 1/24/2003, Ferdinand Prantl wrote:
 >> From: Beman Dawes [mailto:bdawes_at_[hidden]]
 >> Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2003 02:50
 >>
 >> At one time we published a header dependency chart, but as Boost grew
 >> it became unwieldy and we no longer produce it.
 >>
 >> There have been past discussions on how to meet this need, and the
 >> consensus is that usually what is required is a library (rather than
 >> header) dependency analysis.
 >
 >  Yes, I agree, it is almost impossible considering which files to 
include
 >  and which not with the current size of the boost package. It is 
sensible
 >  to declare explicitely library dependencies (tree) and use them.
 >
 >  Nevertheless, I created a perl script some time ago to display header
 >  and library dependencies in my library with references to boost 
headers.
 >  I hacked it quickly to work with boost only; if you are interested it 
is
 >at
 >  http://groups.yahoo.com/group/boost/files/hdr_depend.
 >
 >> This would be fairly easy to produce, using a number of Boost's own
 >> libraries, of course:-)
 >>
 >> But the holdup is that it is only a medium priority task, and lately
 >> has been pushed aside in favor of higher priority work. If
 >> someone else wants
 >> to take this one over, I'd be glad to hand it off. We want to do it
 >> entirely in C++, so any Booster can maintain it.
 >
 >  Well, currently I'm happily unpacking all boost but I like the idea;
 >  for example, for such a project I would like to use smart pointers
 >only...
 >
 >  I could spend some time on such a tool if anyone is interested, firstly
 >  gathering the requirements and then developing it.

Ferda,

Yes! There is definite interest! Let me know if I can do anything to help.

--Beman