Re: [boost] [Filesystem] Proposal: make filesystem generic-programming friendly

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Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2014 11:18:11 -0500 From: bdawes@acm.org To: boost@lists.boost.org Subject: Re: [boost] [Filesystem] Proposal: make filesystem generic-programming friendly

On Sat, Jan 11, 2014 at 12:37 PM, Alexander Lamaison wrote:

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The impeding standard was what caused me to release the draft now. I'd like to get this into Boost.Filesystem before the standard (which is based on it) is frozen.

It is already frozen and in fact the ISO PDTS balloting closes in 8 days. Based on early unofficial feedback, ballot resolution will mostly be limited to typo-level changes.

See http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2013/n3803.pdf

That's the bad news. The good news is that the committee's plan is that ISO/IEC PDTS 18822 AKA File System Technical Specification will be the first of a series of filesystem related Technical Specifications, and the committee's Filesystem Study Group will be actively soliciting proposals for new filesystem related components. Your proposal could wind up hitting the SG just when it is actively looking for new components for the next TS.

More on this later. Thanks,

Just curious, how is this going? And was the proposal by Alexander ever submitted to the committee? It sounds really interesting and useful.