Wow, rewriting almost the whole GNU toolset? Just for not having to use Cygwin? Sounds like a giant waste of time, TBH. Cheers -Andreas On 12:09 Tue 12 Feb , gast128 wrote:
Hello all,
since Boost has marvelous cross platform libraries, wouldn't it be an idea to rewrite all the standard commandline unix tools (e.g. cp, grep, ps, ls, diff) in c++ with Boost? Libraries like program options, filesystem and regex already fullfill a lot of the functionality. Only thing left is a person with a good knowledge of the syntax of the cmd line tools and ofc a lot of time:).
I mainly use Windows and i really miss these tools from time to time. And yes there is Cygwin but I would prefer just the tools without changing my environment. _______________________________________________ Boost-users mailing list Boost-users@lists.boost.org http://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost-users
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