[boost] Re: 1.31.0 release candidate available + release plans

From: Russell Hind (rhind_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-01-20 12:48:37

Douglas Gregor wrote:
> 
> Have all of the problems reported for RC1 been addressed? Is it time to roll 
> RC2?
> 

I'm still waiting for a reply on a possible regression in filesystem I 
reported.  Unfortunately I guess it requires Beman to respond who isn't 
back from vacation yet. (Original post attached)

Cheers

Russell

Original post:

I have code that does this something similar to this:

boost::filesystem::path p("C:\\Documents and Settings", 
boost::filesystem::native);
     p /= "russell";
     p /= "My Documents";

Under 1.30.2, this worked fine.  Under 1.31.0.rc1, this fails with 
exception saying that "My Documents" is invalid name.  If I use the 
filesystem::native again, then it works correctly.

boost::filesystem::path p("C:\\Documents and Settings", 
boost::filesystem::native);
     p /= "russell";
     p /= boost::filesystem::path("My Documents", 
boost::filesystem::native);

Is this intended with the 'improved checking for directory and file name 
portability'.  Are spaces nolonger allowed in portable path names?  This 
seems fairly limiting to me.