Re: [boost] [filesystem] Request for comments on proposed relative() function

Subject: Re: [boost] [filesystem] Request for comments on proposed relative() function
From: Daniel Pfeifer (daniel_at_[hidden])
Date: 2014-05-09 16:23:00

2014-05-08 21:02 GMT+02:00 Bjorn Reese <breese_at_[hidden]>:
> On 05/08/2014 07:19 PM, Beman Dawes wrote:
>
>>   Creates a path from the trailing elements of p that are relative to
>> base.
>
>
> It may be more user-friendly to add that base must be a prefix of p.

It might be even more user-friendly to allow this use case:

BOOST_TEST(fs::relative("/abc", "/abc/def") == path("../def"));

-- Daniel