[boost] Re: [Filesystem] Feature Request: Onemoreimplementationusing.NET

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-04-04 08:47:17

"Edward Diener" <eddielee_at_[hidden]> wrote in message 
news:d2oo3n$4oq$1_at_sea.gmane.org...

>... If you decide to take a Boost library and create a .NET
> implementation for it for your own use or that of others, no one will
> object. But I think it is wrong to ask Boost implementors to work with an
> implementation that is not standard C++. After all Boost is about the C++
> standard and creating advanced implementations which follow that standard 
> as
> much as possible.

Agreed.

I have three priorities for Boost.Filesystem. To refine the i18n interface 
and associated Windows and POSIX implementations to the point they can be 
released, to propose the library to the C++ committee for standardization, 
and to react to bug reports, patches, and other user needs. That is all I 
can handle for the forseeable future.

If someone else wants to contribute another implementation, that would be 
fine. But it might be best to wait until the i18n work is complete, and the 
LWG has had a chance to react to a standardization proposal. Otherwise an 
implementation would be trying to hit a moving target. While the overall 
design of the library has been stable for a long time now, i18n and 
standardization will cause lots of minor changes.

--Beman