26 Oct
2011
26 Oct
'11
11:16 a.m.
On 26/10/2011 12:24, Yakov Galka wrote:
Personally I think that boost::filesystem::paths are a sad joke, it's a pity they're heading to the standard. Although the OS-part is definitely good, the way path class is design isn't suitable for paths outside the unix world. Even if you fix the Unicode problems, you still cannot use long paths on windows (longer than MAX_PATH), although they are supported by the OS. Moreover, judging by the last fixes to the library, it looks like Beman wants to shift the burden of this on the user of the library, instead of implementing something that works transparently.
I suggest you forward your comments to the LWG or whoever is in charge of evaluating things for TR2.