Re: [Boost-users] [filesystem] About use on Windows

From: me22 (me22.ca_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-04-21 14:08:51

On 4/21/07, Kirit Sælensminde <kirit.saelensminde_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> 2) The path class only uses narrow strings. For use with the standard
> C++ libraries this seems fine, but I think once the new standard goes
> through there should be wide character variants for the file library. In
> any case we often use bits of the Win32 API which do take wide
> characters. I'm just wondering if we should just copy the path class to
> make a wpath class path and if we do so should we give that copy back to
> integrate with the normal Boost library?
>
You're apparently not the only ones to need these, as in 1.34 (and the
TR2 proposal) there is basic_path, with typedefs for path and wpath :
http://www.boost-consulting.org/boost/libs/filesystem/doc/tr2_proposal.html#Header-filesystem-synopsis

The release manager is starting packaging a beta of 1.34 on Monday, so
it should only be a few weeks until release.

~ Scott McMurray