Re: [boost] [filesystem] Request for comments on proposed relative() function

On May 15, 2014 7:50:46 AM EDT, Daniel Pfeifer wrote:

BOOST_TEST(fs::relative("/abc", "/abc/def") == path("..")); BOOST_TEST(fs::relative("/abc/def", "/abc/ghi") == path("../def"));

Here again, the first element in the range p, that's not in base, is the empty set. So you say that this is not possible? I see that the proposed implementation of fs::relative does not support it, but I am very interested in this functionality.

OK ___ Rob (Sent from my portable computation engine)