Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > | Microsoft released the compiler that ships with .NET 2003 Professional > | for free, here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/visualc/vctoolkit2003/ >> > | Do we need to support anything older? > | Having said that, I see only two compiler work-arounds in Asger's > | patch, so let's say Asger's compiler ;-) > > I am asking because I need to know where to look in MS's > documentation.
Hey, hey! What have we sucked you into? > Anyway, I am tackling FileInfo first... the Q is: do we really need > it. > > The most advanced features of FileInfo is used by FileDialog.C in > xforms, but that is just a monster and I see that basically all other > file dialogs (gtk/qt/etc) are much simpler. So why not make it > simpler. Agree 100%. > F.ex. do we need to show the user that we have discovered a file to be > a socket or a fifo or a character type (or block) > IMHO we only need to differenciate between file and directory (and > _perhaps_ symbolic link.) Do it! > Also a lot of the other places we use FileInfo is just for one-shot > checking, checking stuff that we can get with boost.filesystem. So why > not use that instead? I would warn against exposing Boost.Filesystem to the rest of LyX for now. Guaranteeing that its obnoxious "this is not a portable file name" asserts are not triggered will require time and patience. However, if you're proposing to use it behind the scenes for 1.4.x, then I'm all for it. -- Angus
