RE: [boost] Re: Wave C++ Review Begins Today - February 7, 2005

From: Hartmut Kaiser (HartmutKaiser_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-02-13 08:50:25

Andy Little wrote:

> >    Did you have any problems?
> 
> The only problems were with the wave.exe driver app. It 
> appears that both gcc( via DJGPP and cygwin) have invalid 
> filenames in headers, as does VC7.1.
> "invalid filenames" eg "c++config.h",  threw exceptions 
> reported from boost::file_system.  Hence no substantial 
> translation-units were processed.

As you've mentioned, this stems from the Boost.Filesystem library and
actually I don't know, how to deal with this problem. But I'll try to
investigate this and to find a way to circumvent these problems. 
Perhaps the authors of Boost.Filesystem could help out? Beman?

> > And finally, every review should answer this question:
> 
> >    * Do you think the library should be accepted as a Boost library?
> 
> Yes.

Thanks!

Regards Hartmut