I am on a trip so replying quickly with my mobile... I agree that the filename clss has become too complicated because of all the corner cases. Still, it has served its purpose and fixed a lot of bugs and portability problems. Coming back to our problem, i think we need a fileName::isSimilarTo() method that can be used instead of the equal operator when we don't need the full comparison. This would solve i think most of the problems.
Abdel On 3/18/09, Vincent van Ravesteijn <v.f.vanraveste...@tudelft.nl> wrote: > rgheck schreef: >> Vincent van Ravesteijn wrote: >>> Anyway, our FileName class is largely based on the QFileInfo class, >>> which is thus not reliable anymore if we just want to compare filenames. >>> >> If I remember correctly, the reason to use QFileInfo had been to >> resolve worries about different links that point to the same physical >> file. Maybe what we need to do, then, is deal with that problem in a >> different way. But I'm not sure. >> >> rh >> > And a second disadvantage of the QFileInfo class is that it is very > unclear when it accesses the filesystem and how you can avoid that in > cases you don't need to. > > It's a bit difficult to see how it can be cleaned up. There is a code > that depends on the Qt version, the OS, the purpose, absolute/relative etc. > > Vincent >
