Re: [Boost-users] Subject: Formal Review of Proposed Boost.Process library starts tomorrow

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Subject: Formal Review of Proposed Boost.Process library starts tomorrow
From: Steven Watanabe (watanabesj_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-02-14 17:55:48

AMDG

On 2/13/2011 10:28 PM, Ilya Sokolov wrote:
> On Fri, 11 Feb 2011 19:01:35 +0500, Jeff Flinn
>> Boost filesystem IMO, is the proper currency when dealing with paths.
>> It provides path decomposition which is done manually in
>> operations.hpp. It also insulates it's clients from the whole
>> unicode/utf8 issue(or at the least mitigates the issue) as described
>> in several of the longest mailing list threads in my memory.
>
> See above. IMHO, the only problem that fs::path solves is the lack
> of string type with known encoding. fs::path doesn't have any useful
> invariant
> and all of its methods could be implemented as free functions.
>

I disagree.  Even if fs::path does nothing
else, it should be used because it expresses
the meaning of the code better.

In Christ,
Steven Watanabe