Re: [boost] Re: [filesystem] new functions proposals

From: Vladimir Prus (ghost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-04-25 02:21:20

Beman Dawes wrote:

>  >Beman, if that's fine with you, I'll code them.
>
> Yes, go ahead. Although the concept of "extension" may be foreign on some
> operating systems, I think the idea is widespread enough to be worth
> including. If I understand your proposal correctly, the code and its usage
> will be portable when applied to a path build from the generic grammar and
> the results will be more or less correct (if a bit odd) when applied to a
> path which used the system dependent constructor and an operating system
> specific path string.

Yes, I think that's so. I attach a patch against CVS HEAD with implementation, 
docs and tests. Could you take a look and tell if anything should be 
corrected?

Thanks,
Volodya