"Beman Dawes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > We've got two cases where it would be very useful to be able to easily > extract the library name from a header file: > > * Generating a dependency analysis based on library names rather than than > header names.
Thanks. I had suggested such a dependency tree based on libraries rather than on headers be available for those who want to distribute Boost without having to distribute the entire header file directory. Of course each library should have a list of its headers in such a dependency tree. I am glad you have picked up on the practicality of that idea. As much as I like Boost I have been reticent to use portions of it in distributable library code since all the headers must be included in the distribution, unless I worked out all the header dependencies for all areas of Boost which I use, which is too much of a PITA even to contemplate. With dependencies based on libraries, and with all of the header files in a particular library specified in such a dependency tree, distributing just portions of Boost will be much easier. _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe & other changes: http://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost