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The C++ Pimpl Idiom Again!

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 test

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