>Many system include files are *NOT* for public consumption.
Then it would be nice if people didn't have to grovel around system include
files to find things.
> Also,
>include files should never include other include files, as this messes
>up dependencies.
That just means you need a smarter dependancy generator, one that digs
into include files for more #includes.
On the Amiga, all include files were supposed to include all include files
they needed, *and* they were supposed to guard themselves and any include
files they included (the latter being an optimization to avoid extra includes
on the slow disks and processors of 1985):
#ifndef GRAPHICS_RASTPORT_H
#ifndef GRAPHICS_BITMAP_H
#include <Graphics/Bitmap.h>
#endif
...
#endif
This worked very well in practice, and I think it's a shame that UNIX
systems don't do this. I'm forever patching Linux software to add extra
"#include <sys/types.h>" and the like.
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