Re: [Boost-users] [Filesystem] Native Pathname Format

From: Edward Diener (eldiener_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-09-01 02:24:40

Hughes, James wrote:
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>> Edward Diener
>> Sent: 31 August 2007 00:05
>> To: boost-users_at_[hidden]
>> Subject: [Boost-users] [Filesystem] Native Pathname Format
>>
>> I can not determine from the Filesystem documentation, nor 
>> the reference documentation which comes with it, what is the 
>> acceptable syntax for the native pathname format. It appears 
>> one must start the native pathname format with //: in order 
>> for it to be recognized, but I can not tell from what appears 
>> to me to be very confusing documentation whether this is so 
>> for the Boost Fileystem implementation. This would mean, 
>> let's say under Windows, that "c:\afile" would not be 
>> recognized but that "//:c:\afile" would be recognized, as far 
>> as I can make out from the documentation. It sure is confusing IMO.
>>
>> Can anybody clarify how this works for Filesystem and/or 
>> where there is a clear explanation of how it works in the 
>> documentation ?
> 
> Take a look at the code itself - it's pretty self explanatory. Native
> means precisely that - it uses the native OS format (which reading the
> code is windows or posix in 1.33 - see the checker functions)
> 
> Boost/filesystem/Path.hpp
> 
> Have to agree on the docs though - very hard to read or find anything
> you want, probably because of the TR1 requirement being unreadable in
> the first place!

If the only way to use a Boost library is to study the code, because the 
doc does not give me the simple explanation which I want, then the 
library is not for me.