2011/8/20 Beman Dawes <bdawes@acm.org>
On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 8:56 AM, Mathias Gaunard < mathias.gaunard@ens-lyon.org> wrote:
I.....>Therefore, I would really like it if there was a lightweight header-only version of Boost.Filesystem. I don't need the full extent of features; I just need to have the ability to do the following portably: - read all files of a directory - create directories - remove files and directories - rename files and directories
The first point being the most important.
A header-only version would be a nice feature to offer.
But it may be more time consuming to implement than it would appear. Vicente Botet tried to do the same with Boost.System, and ran into problems.
It seems to me that there should be some general recipe to create header-only libraries with identical functionality to the compiled library version. Has anyone figured out what that recipe is?
templated & tag-dispatched? (tag for platform or something...)