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From: Scott Meyers (usenet_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-08-19 12:57:42


Jeff Garland wrote:
> I think you missed the boost/filesystem.hpp -- I believe it includes
> "everything" except the fstream.hpp.

There doesn't seem to be a boost/filesystem.hpp or
boost/filesystem/filesystem.hpp in my 1.33.1 distribution. In fact, not anywhere
in the distribution. Are you sure it's really there for you?

> I think it would be good to improve on this. Care to take a crack at writing
> some guidelines for the docs?

I think library authors should at least be strongly encouraged to create a
comprehensive header that typically does little more than include all the
headers offered by the library. This may have to be adapted to make sense for
some libraries, but the idea should be that if I want to start playing around
with the Fridget library, I should be able to include fridget.hpp and get
everything I might want to use. This enables an exploratory style of
familiarizing oneself with a new library and imposes no cost on people who
prefer to use the more granular headers.

Scott


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