2009/1/13 <frederic.bron@alcan.com>:
I've decided not to attempt support for Cygwin in the next version of Boost.Filesystem.
I understand your point. You already do so much for the community! I do not know how fix the cygwin gcc but is your v3 going to work for non-wide characters on that platform?
No. That's the problem. Narrow character only support ends up messing up the code beyond my level of tolerance. For a library that builds in wide character support right from the start, it really isn't C++ anymore if the standard library's wide character support isn't there. The implementation is using wide characters internally, most of the interface is templatized, and wide character test cases are intermingled with narrow character test cases. Perhaps I'm just getting old and cranky, but it's been way over 10 years since all this stuff was standardized. It is time for cygwin to stop tormenting developers and provide full C++ 98 conformance. --Beman