Re: [boost] Design for a file system library

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-02-26 10:39:58

At 09:03 AM 2/26/2002, Jan Langer wrote:

 >On Tue, 26 Feb 2002, Vladimir Prus wrote:

 > ...
 >the current approach assumes just _one_ filesystem being available and
 >this one will be used. how it actually works and which format it uses
 >for identifiers is impl.defined.
 >
 >i didn't say that your proposal is wrong :-)

That's a good point.  If someone has a stroke of genius, and can actually 
specify a library with a much more expansive definition of filesystem and 
pathname, and in a form that could be standardized, they would probably win 
some kind of major award.  But some of the issues, particularly 
internationalization to non-western languages are very difficult and would 
require much diplomacy.

What Jan, I, and others are working on isn't very aggressive or 
imaginative.  But it stands a very real chance of being (1) very useful and 
(2) standardizable.

--Beman