On 16 November 2012 13:14 Rob Stewart [mailto:robertstewart@comcast.net] wrote :
[...] Your argument applies to pathnames alone. Any other arguments to a cross- platform application are unlikely to differ.
True but a]The first parameter (the executable to run) will nearly always have platform specific syntax b]Surely passing a path (or several) to some other process is common enough behaviour to consider how it could be done x-platform.
That's an inappropriate use of path. It is for filesystem paths, not arbitrary strings Something else is necessary.
Was using filesystem::path simply to select the appropriate string type rather than abusing path (I think) - However think I've changed my opinion about whether this is a good x-platform approach after reading Yakov's reply. Alex