Re: [boost] contradictory information in FS docs?

From: Noah Roberts (roberts.noah_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-08-12 16:35:46

dizzy wrote:
> On Thursday 31 July 2008 03:10:24 Noah Roberts wrote:
>> "Class basic_directory_iterator is an important component of the
>> library. It provides an input iterator over the contents of a directory,
>> with the value type being class basic_path."
>>
>> That seems to be correct.
> 
> It's not, in boost 1.34 (if I remember correctly) 
> boost::filesystem::directory_iterator has become an iterator to 
> directory_iterator_entry values rather than to path values as it was before. 
> Implicit conversion operator to path was added (along with an "explicit" 
> getter like .path()).

>> Documentation is same for both 1.34 and 1.35 - tested on 1.34.
> 
> Can you be more explicit (URLs?) where the 1.34/1.35 documentation says that 
> directory_iterator points to a path instead of a directory_iterator_entry? 
> Such statements need correction. Generaly I have used the "reference" 
> documentation for boost filesystem which I do not know to have such problems.

http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_35_0/libs/filesystem/doc/index.htm

Two-minute tutorial has the above quoted text.
> 
>> This appears in both the front page and the docs for directory iterator.
>>   The find_file function doesn't actually compile if copied verbatim.
>> Need to remove all calls to path() on the iter and replace with "*itr".
> 
> You have an older (than 1.34) boost version installed on your system if that 
> does not compile.
> 

Yes, I appeared to have been quite mistaken about what version I was 
using.  This became obvious in another way...