Re: [boost] [filesystem] Function name changes

From: Stefan Seefeld (seefeld_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-07-04 12:41:47

Vladimir Prus wrote:
>
>         backup.tar.bz2
>
> Here, you might want to look at either "top-level" file type -- ".bz2" here,
> or at everything after first dot -- ".tar.bz2", depending on what you want
> to do.
>   

I think it's bad enough that we have inherited this bogus semantics of a 
file 'extension', so let's not add to that. Users can always parse 
filenames with their own application-specific methods, if to them a name 
carries a particular meaning.

Thanks,
       Stefan

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