id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	milestone	component	version	severity	resolution	keywords	cc
1976	Inverse function for complete	me22.ca+boost@…	Beman Dawes	"As mentioned in the '[boost] [filesystem] ""leaf""' thread, complete is the only path composition function without a corresponding decomposition function.

The idea: uncomplete(/foo/new, /foo/bar) => ../new

The use case for this is any time you get a full path (from an open dialog, perhaps) and want to store a relative path so that the group of files can be moved to a different directory without breaking the paths.  An IDE would be a simple example, so that the project file could be safely checked out of subversion.

I'd like to call it relative, but that conceptually conflicts with the relative_path member decomposition function.  Perhaps the member function could be changed to local_path(), or something.

A discussion will need to be held to determine expected behaviour in the presence of symlinks, since root/foo/bar/.. is not always root/foo.
"	Feature Requests	closed	Boost 1.60.0	filesystem	Boost 1.35.0	Problem	fixed		taylor@… boost@…