On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 09:09:03PM +0100, Georg Baum wrote:
> Am Dienstag, 5. Dezember 2006 18:18 schrieb Andre Poenitz:
> > Couldn't we introduce some convenience functions here?
> >
> > if (orig_from_name.exists())) {
>
> Yes. I did not do it so far because we have too many convenience functions
> already (basically we use boost::filesystem and our own tools in
> filetools.C in parallel), and I first wanted to find out how the
> implementation of toFilesystemEncoding really works.
When I see the conversion orgies in the frontend I am tempted to
suggest using QtCore as platform abstraction layer instead of boost::fs
+ boost::foobar + homegrown vegetables.
Of course, Lars is far away right now...
Andre'
