Kuba Ober wrote: >> Yup, your SOH is restored ;-) > > And the reason for that "SOH is restored" comment I believe is that > boost::filesystem knows nada about kpathsea (a.k.a. TeX magic). Thus it > doesn't need to be used to find a file being stored by name only. And IIRC > the consensus (Lars-exclusive :) was that boost::filesystem is a tad too > overblown for the simple things that need to be done with file names and > path, that are handled allrighty in the FileName class. > > I.e. if you say that boost::filesystem is the way to go here, you must be > joking. > > I hope I explained things right ;-)
Whatever we use to implement Filename, or even File and Dir classes, should be an implementation detail. Probably hidden in an pimpl_ <me ducks>. -- Angus
