on Mon Apr 02 2007, Roland Schwarz <roland.schwarz-AT-chello.at> wrote:
David Abrahams wrote:
No, boost is not even one library much less a monolithic one. Boost is a library collection. I've seen the dependencies among the Boost libraries graphed, and unlike some other development frameworks, which just show up as a big blob, Boost is neatly partitioned and the dependencies tend to be a unidirectional DAG.
Really? I very much would like to see this graph.
It was in a preview of code structure analysis software from this company: http://headwaysoft.com/index.php. They were interested in making an analysis of Boost publicly (I think) available online. I've Bcc'd my friend there; if he wants to pipe up, he will (Paul, you have to register if you want to post on this mailing list).
If this is available somewhere I think it would be nice to show it somewhere on the web!
Agreed, for real.
Besides being a nice eye-candy it would support those in need for these kind of arguments.
Ditto.
I would have volunteered in providing this graph, but unfortunately I must have been doing something completely wrong when I was trying to generate such a graph on my own. It reminded me very much of the wool ball my cat likes to play with than a well structured graph. :-(
Well, at the time, Headway's software really did show a remarkable difference between Boost and ACE in that respect. -- Dave Abrahams Boost Consulting www.boost-consulting.com Don't Miss BoostCon 2007! ==> http://www.boostcon.com