On Tue, 2008-02-12 at 11:10 +1300, Amos Jeffries wrote:
> > On Mon, 2008-02-11 at 09:33 +1100, Robert Collins wrote:
> >> One of the things I'd most love to see is the modularisation completed
> >> - complete deletion of protos.h, structs.h, typedefs.h.
> >
> > Yes, of course. That would be the focus of the cleanup that Amos is
> > volunteering to do :-)
> >
>
> Hows this for an action plan Robert?
>
> * Obsolete typedefs.h (underway)
> - remove all unneeded typedefs
> - move all needed typedefs to their appropriate headers
> - fix compile errors
>
> * Add automatic testing for header dependency
> - script to perform universal include unit-test for .h files
> - link to automatic unit-testing in each directory
> - fix the compile errors!
>
> * Obsolete protos.h
> - move all protos to their appropriate header files
> - add includes for headers where needed.
>
> * Obsolete structs.h
> - move all structs to their appropriate header files
> - move modular configuration in to *Config.h files
> (discussion on exactly what the modules are)
I like the automatic include unit test. I found while slowly working
through this that circular structure dependencies made it quite tricky;
I think you will find you need
* Break dependencies
to make it really clean, but that can be longer term if needed.
-Rob
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