[boost] Feature Request - Combine or provide Interop between Boost Filesystem & Iostreams Library, Virtual File System

From: Korcan Hussein (korcan_h_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-12-09 12:45:11

Just a thought if boost file-system could be user-configurable with boost 
iostreams library we could have a nice, clean API for virtual file-systems 
(VFS) not just for the OS file-system.

For example the other day an associate of mine wanted to be able to 
read/write/etc to a zip file like a OS file-system, he couldn't use boost 
iostream's zip filter since it doesn't apparently provide that kind of 
behaviour/abstraction but boost file-system does provide that kind of 
abstraction/behaviour the only problem is it's pretty much tied to working 
with OS file-systems only as far as i'm aware.