On Tue, 28 Oct 2003, Juergen Boemmels wrote:
> Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > On Mon, 27 Oct 2003, Juergen Boemmels wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Currently there 64 header files in include/parrot. From these 64
> > > header files 36 can be included directly, i.e.
> > > #include <parrot/embed.h>
> > > will compile, but
> > > #include <parrot/chartype.h>
> > > will fail with errors. In the case of chartype this can be easily
> > > fixed [1].
> > > Other headers are a little bit harder.
> > >
> > > Would it be a good idea to fix the other headers the same way?
> >
> > Well... I suppose, though I don't see much point. The headers are the way
> > they are in part because the interdependencies between the pieces made it
> > easiest to do it the way that we are.
>
> FreeBSD has problems exactly because of this problem: It needs some
> headers before others. What we need at least is respect our own
> conventions. I.e. no INTVALs out of PARROT_IN_CORE.
> The simplest solution would be: protect all of the headers with
> PARROT_IN_CORE.
Or just declare that you shouldn't include parrot.h. :) Which you
shouldn't, really. extend.h and embed.h shouldn't be leaking anything out,
and if they are we need to fix that.
> > Most (though certainly not all) of
> > the core source files will just include parrot.h, so I'm not sure how much
> > work it's worth.
>
> I don't know if the reason for including parrot.h is only that using
> only the minimal set is really hard to get right.
Fair enough, but we don't need to use the minimal set anywhere.
> > (More importantly, I think it'll decay pretty quickly)
>
> The attached test would ensure that it won't decay, if this test fails
> this is a regression. But I see your point. Keeping MANIFEST up to
> date is also a real problem, even though there is a test.
>
> But put it the other way. If we always want to include parrot.h why
> are there so many header-files and not only one big parrot.h
For the same reason there are a lot of .c files and not one big parrot.c.
:)
Dan
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