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

From: Jeff Garland (jeff_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-11-01 23:58:19

On Tue, 01 Nov 2005 20:35:37 -0500, 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, 

You mean more confusing then magic folders that transport you around the
filespace in odd ways -- like My_Documents?  

> 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.

I think links are an incredibly useful tool Unix and I sorely miss them when I
use Windows...so I actually think this feature will get used extensively --
well at least by me ;-)

Jeff