Re: [boost] [filesystem] becoming worse than the standard?

On 16/08/2022 00:53, Vinnie Falco via Boost wrote:

On Mon, Aug 15, 2022 at 4:46 PM Gavin Lambert via Boost wrote:

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My experiences with std::filesystem and boost::filesystem have been nothing but negative. I think that the decision to make the character type different on Windows was a mistake. The need for locales and imbuements and global state and... really, it is just giving me a big headache.

I think there is room for a new library that handles files, directories, file metadata, and also has some features of nowide (where is the signature of fopen that accepts a filesystem::path?). It should be utf-8 only, use Plain Old char (even on Windows), it should be completely portable, except that it requires that directories are possible and that the filesystem isn't weird (I don't really care about compatibility with grandpa's EPROMs that can hold 9-bit flat files).

With proposed std::filesystem::path_view you can use UTF-8 everywhere once it is into the standard. The committee has signed off on the design, I just need to get it through LWG and it's into the next IS. I just need non-work free time to reappear to get back to working on my standards papers. It'll happen eventually. Niall