Re: [boost] filesystem/path behavior

From: Martin Wille (mw8329_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-04-18 08:20:25

Walter Landry wrote:
> Martin Wille wrote:

>>See http://boost.org/libs/filesystem/doc/path.htm#constructors
>>and http://boost.org/libs/filesystem/doc/portability_guide.htm
> 
> 
> Having been a user of filesystem for quite a while, I really think it
> is time to turn off any default checking.  This is hardly the first
> time that we have seen this kind of non-error cause a problem.

I see two other possible improvements:

1. remove the default, requiring the user always to pass a checker.
    This will definitely stop the guessing among the users.

2. make the error message contain a hint that the default checker might 
be the wrong choice.

Regards,
m
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