Re: [boost] new dir_it

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2001-12-24 08:43:14

At 11:07 PM 12/21/2001, Darin Adler wrote:

 >This library seems an unlikely candidate for C++ Standard 
standardization,
 >at least in part because it can't be built out of the standard C I/O 
stuff,
 >and instead requires something platform specific (POSIX, for example).

The committee used to consider the need for a platform specific 
implementation to be a strong argument against a proposal.  That seems to 
have changed.  In the Redmond discussion of the threads library, for 
example, that issue did not seem to bother anyone.

The apparent usefulness of a proposal is the criteria LWG members seem to 
be focusing on.  If the proposal appears quite useful to a lot of 
programmers, and can be implemented on Unix, Windows, and the Mac, the fact 
that the implementations wouldn't be portable doesn't seem like a 
showstopper.  That probably would be a showstopper if the library was 
viewed as only marginally useful.

--Beman