Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > Angus> At the moment it buys us nothing. When I present you with my > Angus> 'common line-like' parser, it will enable us to expand globs in > Angus> user-defined converters, both on *nix platforms (as now) and on > Angus> Windows plaforms. Admittedly, a small plus. > > Do we really want this?
I don't know. I'm asking. > Does this mean that if someone uses * in a file name, > it will trigger globbing? The shell rule is that there is no globbing of the first argument in the command. In other words, yes, globbing will be triggered (unless the '*' is quoted). An unsuccessful glob will return the pattern unchanged. > Angus> The right place for this is Boost. I've started the process, > Angus> but it will undoubtedly take a long time. > > So this is intended to become boost::glob, right? I'd like that, yes. But the road is long and hard. > Angus> So, How should I proceed? Should I leave this to one side for > Angus> the time being and bring forward a 'command line-like' parser > Angus> that does not expand globs? I'm quite happy to do that and I > Angus> don't think that we lose anything significant. > > I guess it's up to you and Lars. Why? Your opinion is as valuable as anyone else's. -- Angus
