Beman Dawes wrote:
For V3, I would appreciate comprehensive documentation on the format of external_file_string() for each supported platform.
The problem is that the exact format is determined not by the filesystem library, but by a conversion function provided by the operating system. These conversion functions (or the underlying locale facet) do not always provide detailed documentation.
A documented promise that boost.filesystem will use a specific conversion function and pointers to the existing documentation of those functions - however poor they might be - would be valuable. Looking at the implementation is doable but you don't get any promises of stability when upgrading to newer boost versions. Also, many people download pre-built binaries from boost-pro and those people have to find the source somehow. Cheers, Johan www.johantorp.com -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/-filesystem-Extracting-path-as-string-from-wpath-tp200... Sent from the Boost - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.