Re: [boost] [Filesystem] v3 path separator changes

Yakov Galka writes:

On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 9:12 PM, Alexander Lamaison wrote:

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Yakov Galka writes: [...]

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It seems that the designer of the library does not like the idea that

path

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be a higher level platform independent abstraction of paths. As I'd say many times I see little use in the current path class, and I personally use UTF-8 std::strings everywhere with suitably defined operations. What annoys me is that Boost.filesystem has a fairly good multiplatform implementation of filesystem operative functions, but which depends on this dumb path class.

I wouldn't write off the path class entirely. It was what first got me in to Boost all those years ago! But it could be better and some of the recent changes don't make sense to me.

I admit that a path class is a matter of preference. But this is why it is unfair that exists(const path &x) uses a path in its interface towards those who do not like using this class.

You realise Boost.Filesystem actually works the way you describe? :-P Nothing forces you to use class path to benefit from the operation functions. Try this for example: assert(boost::filesystem::exists("c:\\")); Works as you expect. Alex -- Swish - Easy SFTP for Windows Explorer (http://www.swish-sftp.org)