Re: [boost] [Filesystem] Proposal: make filesystem generic-programming friendly

Subject: Re: [boost] [Filesystem] Proposal: make filesystem generic-programming friendly
From: Niall Douglas (s_sourceforge_at_[hidden])
Date: 2014-01-12 11:45:53

On 11 Jan 2014 at 23:16, Alexander Lamaison wrote:

> The point of discussing the draft here is to make sure Beman, and any other
> interested parties, agree the changes make sense, and to get important
> feedback before I get too far ahead.  Already your few questions have made
> the role of the path classes much clearer in my head, so thanks!

I would be an interested party. Sometime in the future I'd like the 
ability to add to C++ filesystem namespaces which are implemented by 
a process-local abstraction layer which transforms high level 
filesystem operations into something else. This sounds not dissimilar 
to what you're doing.

I would be particularly interested in being able to substantially 
extend the file path syntax with useful new capabilities. Like VMS 
did.

Niall

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