Re: [boost] [FileSystem] portable Temp, Desktop & Applications directories

Subject: Re: [boost] [FileSystem] portable Temp, Desktop & Applications directories
From: Jeff Flinn (TriumphSprint2000_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-11-03 07:39:57

Beman Dawes wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 10:34 AM, Jeff Flinn
> <TriumphSprint2000_at_[hidden]>wrote:
> 
>> Is there any existing facility to get in particular the path to the user's
>> temp directory in FileSystem?
> 
> 
> No, nothing yet.
> 
> 
>> I couldn't find one in boost_1_35_0, but I've might have missed it. Any
>> plans for this functionality?
> 
> 
> There have been several requests related to temporary files and directories,
> but nothing has gelled.
> 
> 
>> On Win and Mac there's getenv TEMP/TmpDir, or is there a better way.
> 
> 
> That's a good bet for now.

Thanks, Beman. I'll use getenv for now.

Jeff