On Mon, 2010-06-14 at 09:26 -0400, Eric Niebler wrote:
On 6/14/2010 9:14 AM, Stewart, Robert wrote:
Andrey Semashev wrote:
On 06/14/2010 04:42 PM, Phil Richards wrote:
Are these functions specific to Boost.Filesystem? A mechanism for quoting strings (whether it is double-quoting, back-slashing, or URL-style) would seem to be generally useful, and not just specific to the filesystem library.
I think, path quoting rules can be OS-specific, so it seems fit to reside in Boost.Filesystem. While that may be true, they could be built atop a more general offering. Don't wait for a perfect mousetrap. A merely good one will do for now.
If the three suggested quoting routines are provided (by whatever mechanism: clever, dumb; generic, or otherwise) as non-filesystem specific conversions, then filesystem can use them. The advantage of them not being in boost::filesystem is that other people will be able to find and use them too (for non-filesystem specific things). I have a feeling that there are a number of useful general-purpose utility things hidden away inside specific libraries (sometimes as detail). It would be shame to add to that tally. Phil -- Phil Richards, <news@derived-software.ltd.uk>