Re: [boost] [filesystem] Function name changes

From: Scott McMurray (me22.ca+boost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-07-04 14:10:38

On Fri, Jul 4, 2008 at 12:35, Vladimir Prus <vladimir_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>>> Furthermore, I do think we need to pay attention to Qt's suffix
>>> vs. completeSuffix distinction -- it seems useful one.
>>
>> What is that?
>
>        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 very strongly dislike that concept.  It can be done much better
treating extension() and stem() like head() and tail(), and iterating.

And a quick peek at my filesystem finds such things as these:
    /usr/portage/distfiles/boost-jam-3.1.4.tgz
    /usr/portage/distfiles/automake-1.8.5.tar.bz2
    /usr/portage/distfiles/binutils-2.16.1-patches-1.9.tar.bz2
    /usr/portage/distfiles/gcc-3.4.6-piepatches-v8.7.10.tar.bz2
    /usr/portage/distfiles/linux-2.6.17-m68k-headers.patch.bz2
    /usr/portage/distfiles/mozilla-firefox-2.0.0.6-fr.xpi
    /usr/portage/distfiles/nerolinux-3.0.1.3-x86_64.rpm
    /usr/portage/distfiles/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-100.14.09-pkg2.run
Where "everything after the first dot" is *never* of use to anyone.