In the domain of commercial large-scale software development the following design principles become important:
- modularity, separation of concerns,
- implementation hiding,
- minimization of compilation and component dependencies,
- consistent and recognizable implementation and deployment patterns,
- multi-platform support.
The Pimpl idiom can help great deal achieving these goals. It is a simple yet robust programming technique to minimize coupling via
- the separation of public interface and private implementation and then
- implementation hiding.
This header-only library provides a deployment pattern and the supporting infrastructure in an attempt
- to minimize the deployment and maintenance hassle and the potential for error,
- to formalize the deployment of the idiom.
To build and run the tests coming with this library you can use CMake. Just execute this sequence of commands:
$ mkdir build
$ cmake -E chdir build cmake ..
$ cmake --build build
$ cmake --build build --target testHTML documentation is available here.