On Sun, 19 May 2013 at 17:36:36 +0200, Christophe wrote: > > ----- Rodolfo García Peñas (kix) <k...@kix.es> a écrit : > > Hi > > > > I Am not with my laptop, short answer. > > > > I don't agree because your proposal is include all headers files in > > all source files. We should include only the headers needed. > > That is conceptually a nice looking idea, but experience has taught me > that it does not scale very well. There are 2 cases which cause > problems occasionally: > > - headers dependencies: when you're in the middle of working on a > larger problem, it is generally annoying to have to hunt down which > header you are missing which is causing use of header 'xxx.h' to fail > because it needs something defined in another header (read: it > distracts you from your main problem, thus increase the risk of > error). > > - prototype mismatches: for this case, I would invite you to have a > look at commit > > http://repo.or.cz/w/wmaker-crm.git/commit/d517d5cac05a6b0ea905ccf23d79efecb6a0c06e > and more specifically the case for the 2nd line in the comment; and as > an exercise I would invite you to review the patches you proposed and > tell me if you notice anything. > > The one-header-includes-them-all solution may not seem as conceptually > impressive, but pragmatically it has the advantage to gather the header > dependency problem in one place, and completely solves 2nd issue by > design.
Having only one header does not seem like a solution to the problems you mentioned, it's a way to give up. Do you know of a (relatively) big project that has only one header file? -- To unsubscribe, send mail to wmaker-dev-unsubscr...@lists.windowmaker.org.
