Re: [boost] Making Boost.Filesystem work with GENERAL filenames with g++ in Windows (a solution)

Subject: Re: [boost] Making Boost.Filesystem work with GENERAL filenames with g++ in Windows (a solution)
From: Joshua Juran (jjuran_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-10-26 13:12:16

On Oct 26, 2011, at 6:05 AM, Alf P. Steinbach wrote:

> On 26.10.2011 14:17, Yakov Galka wrote:
> [snip argumentative noise]
>
>> This offends me. I'm facing the MAX_PATH limitation at my work. If  
>> you
>> develop nothing more than desktop apps that interact directly with  
>> the user,
>> then please don't infer from this that others don't need it  
>> either. MAX_PATH
>> is a problem in a large scale systems where you have enormous  
>> amounts of
>> data.
>
> You don't need such long paths for any size of data.

Technically, you don't need Windows either.

Josh