Beman Dawes wrote: <snip>
In addition to ISO 9660, the classic MAC OS, VMS, and various IBM legacy OS's were considerations.
The classic MAC OS is less of a consideration today, and VMS also falls in that category. The legacy IBM systems are still important in some quarters, but we have never had any requests for Boost interoperability on those systems that I'm aware of.
That pretty much leaves ISO 9660 as the main consideration. I'm under the impression that Joliet extensions are now widely available, although I've not done a systematic survey.
What if someone ports Boost to AmigaOS? That has a 30-character limit on filenames (in the standard filesystem, though not in all). I believe GCC 3.4 can still target AmigaOS, so this is not totally impossible... though not very likely to happen. Ben.