
9 Feb
2011
9 Feb
'11
4:02 p.m.
At Tue, 8 Feb 2011 16:59:25 -0500, Beman Dawes wrote:
I've been testing on Windows with boost/filesystem being a directory symlink to ../../libs/filesystem/include/boost/filesystem
Since when does Windows support symlinks?!
Since Vista.
Oh, that explains why I've never seen them. I guess it's time for me to get some more up-to-date Windows OS installations!
Would it be possible to generate directory symlinks instead of forwarding headers if the filesystem supports them?
Sure! What filesystem doesn't? FAT?
FAT, pre-Vista NTFS, and some CD-ROM and DVD file systems.
OK, so much the better. I'm sure we can eliminate most of the forwarding headers most of the time, then! -- Dave Abrahams BoostPro Computing http://www.boostpro.com