[boost] Filesystem on mac

[Geoff Leyland]

Hi,

I've got an oldish bit of code that manages file paths on windows, unix and mac. It's not nearly as full-featured as the filesystem path stuff, so obviously I'd like to replace it with the filesystem library. However, the filesystem library doesn't seem to manage mac paths, which I still need to do. I've had a look at the code, and it's not really clear how one is supposed to add support for new path types.

There's a path object that does windows and unix paths, and a comment that this could be implemented differently for other platforms. But there's no path superclass or anything.

In my implementation, I have a general path object (a vector of strings as opposed to a single string, but I don't think that matters), and a bunch of path interpreters. When a string gets passed to a path constructor, each of the path interpreters has a go at guessing whether it can interpret the path. (Or at least that's what it's meant to do, it's not quite that elegant).

So, how should I go about adding mac support for paths?

cheers,
goof


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