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. If this is available somewhere I think it would be nice to show it somewhere on the web! Besides being a nice eye-candy it would support those in need for these kind of arguments. 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. :-( Roland