Re: [Boost-users] Avoiding reinventing the wheel for a public api with binary compatibility in mind

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Avoiding reinventing the wheel for a public api with binary compatibility in mind
From: Emil Dotchevski (emildotchevski_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-11-08 13:53:30

On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 7:13 PM, Nigel Rantor <wiggly_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> Geoff Hilton wrote:
>> bcp sounds interesting but according to
>> http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_40_0/tools/bcp/bcp.html (which happens to
>> use boost::shared_ptr as an example), using it would pull in 274 header
>> dependencies.
> I'm wondering what you mean here.
> Are you saying:
> a) Wow, that's a lot isn't it? Did I do something wrong?
> b) Oh, cool. But look, it grabbed a lot of stuff.
> c) Other
> I don't have access right now to my dev box so I have no idea how many
> dependencies you should expect to see being pulled in.

If there is evidence that a boost library (or even header) includes
things that it shouldn't, a ticket should be filed. However note that
this has nothing to do with the number of ingluded header files.

Emil Dotchevski
Reverge Studios, Inc.
http://www.revergestudios.com/reblog/index.php?n=ReCode