On Sun, Sep 07, 2014 at 12:49:18PM -0700, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> David Aguilar wrote:
>
> > Add dependent headers so that including a header does not
> > require including additional headers.
>
> I agree with this goal, modulo the compat-util.h caveat. Thanks
> for working on it.
>
> [...]
> > --- a/archive.h
> > +++ b/archive.h
> > @@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
> > #ifndef ARCHIVE_H
> > #define ARCHIVE_H
> >
> > +#include "cache.h"
> > #include "pathspec.h"
> >
> > struct archiver_args {
>
> I'm less happy about the way of achieving that goal. Here's an
> alternative. Advantages:
>
> * (fully expanded) headers stay small
>
> * fewer other headers included as a side-effect of including one
> header, so callers are more likely to remember to #include the
> headers defining things they need (which makes later refactoring
> easier)
>
> * circular header dependencies are harder to produce
>
> If this seems like a good direction to go in, I can finish the patch
> later today
Yes, please, that would be sweet.
Would you mind squashing in your sug to patch 1/2 as well when resending?
It seems like a nice improvement all around.
RE: pre-compiled headers -- that might be a nice follow-up to
this series. I'm not very familiar with Windows so I don't know
if it would be doable on mingw, cygwin, and msvc et al. but if
it helps other platforms then it could be a nice feature.
Thanks Jonathan,
--
David
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