2 Nov
2005
2 Nov
'05
2:47 a.m.
Jeremy Maitin-Shepard wrote:
"Beman Dawes" <bdawes@acm.org> writes:
Microsoft has published an API for Windows Vista supporting POSIX-like symbolic links.
Unless someone has a killer argument against, I'll add a create_symlink() function to Boost.Filesystem.
This seems perfectly reasonable. In practice, however, I think any program that creates symlinks will be highly confusing for most Windows users, and thus this feature is likely not to ever be used by most users of the library. This seems to show how platform-specific many filesystem manipulations really are.
Yes. It isn't just a question of whether or not something is supported, but also whether or not programmers use and are used to the idioms it allows. --Beman