Re: [Boost-users] Re: boost::filesystem problems

On Fri, 20 Aug 2004 08:42:03 -0400, David Abrahams wrote

"Jeff Garland" writes:

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The only use I can see is that you at run-time can ensure that some application generated paths (e.g. path(root / "mysubdir")) are portable but why base an entire library on such a small thing.

It's a big thing to me.

It's clear there are two usage models, then, because I have the same experience as Martin does. It's unfortunate that the filesystem library is biased towards one model and makes the other one difficult to work with.

I don't consider an extra constructor parameter 'difficult'. Sure, maybe the default should be flipped around -- I'd be fine with that. I give much credit to Beman for listening on this issue because personally I found a large lack of support for handling the portable path issue in languages like 'perl' that supposedly provide good cross-platform libraries. Jeff