Re: [boost] Lighweight header-only version of Boost.Filesystem?

Subject: Re: [boost] Lighweight header-only version of Boost.Filesystem?
From: Mathias Gaunard (mathias.gaunard_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-08-19 10:41:04

On 17/08/2011 14:56, Mathias Gaunard wrote:
> I use Boost.Filesystem in a C++ "script": I use C++ instead of Python or
> shell script in order to be portable across operating systems.
>
> That script is used in bootstrapping the build system of my C++ project,
> and people have complained that they need to build boost.filesystem just
> to be able to bootstrap the project.

For information, I ended up writing my own abstraction over the 
filesystem system functions.

I still think it would be useful to have a minimal header-only part in 
boost.filesystem itself though.