Re: standard for locating appropriate header file to include from doc page?

Daniel James <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lib.boost.documentation
Message-ID <CAHOE3yeDWt78yq8W6=+Ue-c13GHxJj4q3hUO8w1nG-G1=vBmLw@mail.gmail.com>
On 25 May 2012 19:25, Jonathan Graehl <[email protected]> wrote:
> A documentation URL like
>
> http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_49_0/libs/ptr_container/doc/ptr_array.html
>
> means I should include <boost/ptr_container/ptr_array.hpp>, right? Or is
> there no such convention? The actual documentation text has always lacked
> any easily discoverable mention of the relevant header to include (and less
> frequently needed - the library name for the linker).

No, there's no such convention. Reference documentation generated
using boostbook will include the header,
http://www.boost.org/doc/html/boost/array.html is an example of that.
For other libraries the documentation is their maintainers'
responsibility.
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