Re: big Deps ...

On 21/06/12 13:47, Stephan Bergmann wrote:
> On 06/21/2012 10:57 AM, Michael Meeks wrote:
> > On Wed, 2012-06-20 at 18:28 +0200, Stephan Bergmann wrote:
> > > IIRC, the logic of cppumaker is to first generate temporary .hpp and
> > > .hdl files and only copy them over existing ones in solver if they are
> > > actually different.  That way, it should easily happen that a .hdl file
> > > is updated while the corresponding .hpp file is not.  (For example, when
> >
> >      Fair enough; but we could presumably easily tweak that such that a .hdl
> > and .hpp would be updated in lock-step; after all if the .hpp is not
> > changed - it necessarily includes the .hdl - so we didn't really gain
> > anything from not touching the .hpp :-)
>
> Yeah, could probably be done.

that sounds easy enough.

> >      [ indeed, I'm sure there is one - but what is the benefit of separating
> > the .hdl files out, if we are sure that each .hpp will include all of
> > it's dependent .hpp's ? ].
>
> Circular dependencies among headers.

i wonder: is that the case for all generated headers, or just for some
small subset that is necessary for bootstrapping (i.e. probably
css.uno/css.lang)?

if the latter, would it be possible to add some option or something to
only generate 2 headers when really necessary?