Has the time come to get rid of the "delivering" of public headers?

[Lubos Lunak]

On Tuesday 21 of February 2012, Michael Stahl wrote:
> > 	I wonder how bad the alternative of adding -I$S/svx/inc -I$S/vcl/inc
> > etc. etc. is for command-line length ?
>
> would need to try that out on Windows, but my guess is that even if it
> doesn't blow out command line length limits (which could be worked
> around with a response file) it'll make the Windows build a lot slower
> because compiler has to try out all include paths (well statistically
> half of them but that is bad enough) for every included files, and those
> file accesses take forever on Windows.

 Could not the windows build be helped by having only one location for include 
files where a script would at the beginning of the build create for each .hxx 
file a small wrapper with the same name only doing #include of the real one, 
with the right path to it?

 And, since I'm already asking, is the Windows performance the reason include 
files are scattered this way? E.g. in sw/ I find this actually rather 
annoying, some .hxx files are in inc/, some next to .cxx sources, Writer 
AFAIK does not really export anything anyway, and I always have to jump 
around just to find the right header file :(.

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 Lubos Lunak
 l.lunak at suse.cz