[Ns-developers] ns-3 and future development

[mathieu lacage]

Lloyd Wood wrote:

>Minimal and self-contained headers are also needed to reduce
>compilation time and code bloat - essential for a large-scale
>commercial codebase I'm familiar with. If you have foo.c, and
>make foo.o
>in that directory doesn't produce the foo object file, you more than
>likely have non-self-contained headers...
>  
>

We are in strong agreement.

>(Another concern here is avoiding something similar to ns2's packet.h,
>which declares everything even though it's rarely used. That's a lot
>  
>

Yes. It is very bad for modularization. The 0.3 release avoids this 
problem. The next one will avoid it too with, hopefully, a nicer API...

regards,
Mathieu