Subject: Re: [Boost-users] BCP question
From: Stepan Hrbek (dee_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-05-05 16:19:11
Hi Robert,
I don't know how to make bcp give you this information, but Visual
Studio 2008 has project property C/C++ / Advanced / Show Includes to
show include tree. See its output in http://dee.cz/x/seri_incl.txt,
whole library build includes boost/iterator.hpp over 50x.
Stepan
Robert Ramey wrote:
> I'm investigating BCP and have at least one question.
>
> When I use --list with BCP to generate a list of dependencies for the
> serialization library, I get among otherthings:
>
> ...
> boost/iterator.hpp
> boost/iterator/detail/config_def.hpp
> boost/iterator/detail/config_undef.hpp
> boost/iterator/detail/enable_if.hpp
> boost/iterator/detail/facade_iterator_category.hpp
> boost/iterator/filter_iterator.hpp
> boost/iterator/interoperable.hpp
> boost/iterator/iterator_adaptor.hpp
> boost/iterator/iterator_categories.hpp
> boost/iterator/iterator_facade.hpp
> boost/iterator/iterator_traits.hpp
> boost/iterator/transform_iterator.hpp
> ...
>
> The first one - boost/iterator.hpp - what I wonder about. I searched the
> files in used
> in the serialization library and I could find on direct usage of the
> convenience
> header "boost/iterator.hpp". I'm guess that this is a secondary dependency
> introduced by something I've included directly. So
>
> a) Is this a good guess?
> b) Is there an easy way of determining which of the things I'm including is
> including
> boost/iterator.hpp?
>
> I've taken care while working on the serialization library to minimize
> gratuitous
> dependencies. It seems that other libraries might be including the
> "convenience headers"
> which subverts my intention to minimize dependencies. Would this not be a
> good
> argument for library writters to refrain from using these convenience
> headers?
>
> Robert Ramey
>
> BTW - I had never looked at BCP before. An incredible accomplishment to
> write such
> a thing - correctly.
>
> RR
>
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Boost-users mailing list
> Boost-users_at_[hidden]
> http://listarchives.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost-users
>