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

From: Kirit Sælensminde (kirit.saelensminde_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-04-22 00:40:43

me22 wrote:
> 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.

Thanks Scott. In that case we'll hold off introducing it until 1.34 
comes out.

K