Re: [AD] Clarifying and revising filesystem API

[Elias Pschernig <elias.pschernig@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Evert Glebbeek wrote:
> On 16 Apr 2009, at 19:21 , Peter Wang wrote:
> > Directory operations are outside of this API.  Use libc, PhysicsFS
> > or some VFS layer as you like.
>
> I like some provision for managing directories/actual file system  
> stuff. Simply because Windows sucks and I can't be bothered to try to  
> remember which functions are standard libc and which are POSIX  
> extensions that will not work (reliably) in Windows and need to be  
> replaced by something else (which I can't test/debug since I'm not  
> using Windows).
> So I think we should offer a platform neutral option for this reason.
> Other than that I don't have strongly held opinions (at the moment)  
> about what form this option should take.

My vote also goes for directory operations. It's very common in games (e.g. list 
all files in the savegames folder).

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Elias Pschernig <elias@xxxxxxxxxx>