Hartmut Kaiser wrote:
Hi all,
are there any plans to add functions to Boost.Filesystem to get different default directories such as get_user_home_dir(), get_app_config_dir(), get_system_config_dir() et.al.?
On Windows these probably would map directly to the SHGetFolderLocation() function, on *nix based systems these could map to some equivalent environment variable (i.e. $HOME) or some convention (i.e. system config files are in /etc/...). Surely there are some conventions for other systems as well.
While this does indeed sound convenient, I'm afraid other than $HOME there are no such conventions. Or rather, there are too many to choose. I believe for 'system config' and 'application config' at least this belongs into the domain of applications, not system libraries. I wouldn't expect such features in a library such as boost_filesystem. Regards, Stefan