On 4/21/07, Kirit Sælensminde
2) The path class only uses narrow strings. For use with the standard C++ libraries this seems fine, but I think once the new standard goes through there should be wide character variants for the file library. In any case we often use bits of the Win32 API which do take wide characters. I'm just wondering if we should just copy the path class to make a wpath class path and if we do so should we give that copy back to integrate with the normal Boost library?
You're apparently not the only ones to need these, as in 1.34 (and the TR2 proposal) there is basic_path, with typedefs for path and wpath : http://www.boost-consulting.org/boost/libs/filesystem/doc/tr2_proposal.html#... The release manager is starting packaging a beta of 1.34 on Monday, so it should only be a few weeks until release. ~ Scott McMurray