[Boost-users] Re: Re: Feature request for boost::filesystem

From: Vladimir Prus (ghost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-07-02 02:18:09

Edward Diener wrote:

>> 1. Make the library interface templated.
>> 2. Use narrow classes: e.g. string
>> 3. Use wide classes: e.g. wstring
>> 4. Have some class which works with ascii and unicode.
>>
>> The first approach is bad for code size reasons. If the library does
>> substantial work (e.g. HTTP library), it better be dynamic library,
>> so that applications don't have include all the code. Of course, you
>> might want static linking, but dynamic linking should be possible too.
> 
> One could quite easily provide separate libraries for different character
> types, if a library was necessary in the first place.

Yea, but whether as two separate file or one file, the size is still twice
as large. E.g. if on a typical Linux system, just one application uses wide
version, you have to install both wide and narrow version. Here on my box,
the size of /usr/lib in 1.2G. Making it into 2.4G does not seem right ;-)

- Volodya