Re: [boost] Re: the first version of abstract path manipulation class (interface)

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-01-29 13:44:19

At 11:49 PM 1/27/2002, joel de guzman wrote:
 >
 >----- Original Message -----
 >From: "Jesse Jones" :
 >
 >>
 >> Aren't paths an implementation detail? What about OS's now and in the
 >> future that deprecate paths? I don't see why we can't create a higher
 >> level class that works just as well as a path-centric class, but also
 >> works well on the Mac OS.
 >
 >Exactly! That's why I suggested conversion to and from a standard well
 >defined format such as a URI (Universal Resource Identifier).

That makes a lot of sense to me.  I started to look at 
http://www.w3.org/Addressing/ to get an idea of what was involved, but 
quickly got lost in the details.  Which scheme are you suggesting? 
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2396.txt perhaps?

--Beman