RE: [boost] [filesystem] "." directory-placeholder added

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-06-13 12:06:11

At 09:54 PM 6/12/2003, Glen Knowles wrote:

 >From: Beman Dawes [mailto:bdawes_at_[hidden]]
 >>There are a bunch of reasons - but particularly it would be creating
 >>names that will just be rejected by many (or even most) modern operating 

 >>systems. What would be the point of that? It is the same as with 
requests
 >>for allowing full URI syntax in paths; without any mechanism in the
 >>operational functions allowing those paths, what would be the point?
 >
 >The point is that there is a common need for parsing, combining, and
 >otherwise manipulating URI and other paths prior to forwarding them to
 >another system that processes that format. This may not be a mission of 
the
 >filesystem library, but it is an important use case.

I gave that some consideration at one time, but the full URI spec 
(http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2396.txt) covers so much that is totally 
outside the scope of a filesystem library that it really seems an 
over-generalization to try to included it as part of filesystem::path. The 
tail would soon be wagging the dog:-)

A separate URI library would seem a cleaner approach.

--Beman