Re: [boost] [filesystem] create_symlink() support for Windows Vista?

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-11-01 21:47:40

Jeremy Maitin-Shepard wrote:
> "Beman Dawes" <bdawes_at_[hidden]> writes:
> 
>> Microsoft has published an API for Windows Vista supporting POSIX-like 
>> symbolic links.
> 
>> Unless someone has a killer argument against, I'll add a create_symlink() 
>> function to Boost.Filesystem.
> 
> This seems perfectly reasonable.  In practice, however, I think any
> program that creates symlinks will be highly confusing for most Windows
> users, and thus this feature is likely not to ever be used by most users
> of the library.  This seems to show how platform-specific many
> filesystem manipulations really are.

Yes. It isn't just a question of whether or not something is supported, 
but also whether or not programmers use and are used to the idioms it 
allows.

--Beman