From: Beman Dawes (beman_at_[hidden])
Date: 2000-10-31 11:01:58
At the Boost meeting in Toronto, Nico Josuttis asked that we publish header
dependencies. His motivation was wanting to know what other headers have
to be available to use one of the Boost headers. I thought it would also
be useful as a way of judging the degree of coupling.
I've written a little program to which turns the GCC -M dependency output
into an HTML table. See
http://www.egroups.com/files/boost/hpp-dependencies.html
I originally choose a table rather than a Doxygen style chart because it
was more compact. But also look at
http://www.crystalclearsoftware.com/users/jeff/boost/regex.hpp.html (thanks
to Jeff Garland). Doxygen isn't picking up the indirect includes, and so
gives a less useful view, IMO. I don't know if it has an indirect include
option.
Please take a look at my HTML table in the files/vault, and then comment:
* Is the table useful and worth including on the boost web site?
* Should implementation detail headers be included or excluded?
* Should the 2nd column entries be sorted?
I'm not including Standard Library headers; exactly which ones get included
is very Standard Library implementation dependent.
It might be nice to include Standard Library headers called directly from
Boost headers, but I don't offhand see an easy way to do that.
--Beman