Re: [boost] Re: Shouldn't boost::filesystem be BOOST_POSIX on cygwin?

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-08-22 13:56:00

At 08:32 AM 8/18/2004, David Abrahams wrote:
 >Jeremy Maitin-Shepard <jbms_at_[hidden]> writes:
 >
 >> I brought this up a while ago.  I believe Beman stated as a rationale
 >> for this behavior that he and other boost developers and users like to
 >> use Windows native paths in Cygwin, using Cygwin as an environment for
 >> Windows software development.
 >
 >I think that's a bad rationale.  In point of fact most cygwin tools
 >can handle either path format, but the native representation is
 >indeed a POSIX one.

Boost filesystem, like cygwin, has to support both. There are significant 
numbers of cygwin users for both the Windows and POSIX environments.

 >> You can define BOOST_POSIX when compiling to force POSIX path handling.
 >> Arguably, POSIX should be the default on Cygwin, since it is designed 
to
 >> be a POSIX emulation environment, and many users surely use it as such.
 >
 >Yeah.  But IMO on cygwin boost::filesystem should handle both formats.

It does. The docs were updated after the last release to make that clearer.

--Beman