RE: [boost] filesystem/directory example [was: ... header redux]

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-04-09 10:01:51

At 07:15 AM 4/9/2002, Jan Langer wrote:

 >On Mon, 8 Apr 2002, Jeff Garland wrote:
 >>Seems like there are a few non-portable LOC in your program:
 >>Such as:
 >>    if ( find_file( boost_root_dir + "/status/bin/config_info.test",
 >>and
 >>    string tools_path( boost_root_dir + "/tools/build/" +
 >compiler_name
 >>
 >>I thought at one point we talked about a way to do this.  Maybe
 >something like:
 >>    if ( find_file( boost_root_dir + dir_sep() + "status" + 
dir_sep() +
 >"config_info.test",
 >>
 >>So on Windows dir_sep() would be "\" and on Unix it would be 
"/".  Or
 >is something in the core going
 >>to convert "/" to the right thing?
 >
 >these things will be solved by the path manipulation functions which
 >are not stabilized yet. but there is a comment on this in the header 
of
 >bemans file.

Yes, exactly.

 >i think it will be solved with something like
 >	compose (boost_root_dir, "tools", "build", compiler_name);

Yes.  The reason that it is a bit difficult is that on some platforms 
(VMS?) you have to know that the first three arguments represent 
directory names and the last argument represents a file name.

I don't want to spend any time on those issues right now, both because 
we need a production program to do the regression HTML, and because I 
want to finish rev 1 of boost/filesystem/directory.hpp work.

--Beman