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

Subject: Re: [boost] Lighweight header-only version of Boost.Filesystem?
From: TONGARI (tongari95_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-08-20 12:07:20

2011/8/20 Beman Dawes <bdawes_at_[hidden]>

> On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 8:56 AM, Mathias Gaunard <
> mathias.gaunard_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>
> > I.....>Therefore, I would really like it if there was a lightweight
> > header-only version of Boost.Filesystem.
> > I don't need the full extent of features; I just need to have the ability
> > to do the following portably:
> >  - read all files of a directory
> >  - create directories
> >  - remove files and directories
> >  - rename files and directories
> >
> > The first point being the most important.
> >
>
> A header-only version would be a nice feature to offer.
>
> But it may be more time consuming to implement than it would appear.
> Vicente
> Botet tried to do the same with Boost.System, and ran into problems.
>
> It seems to me that there should be some general recipe to create
> header-only libraries with identical functionality to the compiled library
> version. Has anyone figured out what that recipe is?
>

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