Boost C++ Libraries: Ticket #5897: Make path relative function.

anonymous — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 01:35:11 GMT

Great idea! I was looking for that exact function just today.

anonymous — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 13:30:03 GMT

I've added an example for 1.46.1 ( probably works for trunk as well, haven't tried ). For details take a look at https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/6249 .

anonymous — Fri, 26 Jul 2013 07:48:51 GMT

Please consider this feature, it is required rather often - http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10167382/boostfilesystem-get-relative-path

anonymous — Tue, 30 Jul 2013 07:09:30 GMT

This would be really helpful, I'd consider it one of the basic functions you want to do with paths.

Sat, 15 Nov 2014 15:54:08 GMT

+1 for this.

mojes@… — Sun, 23 Nov 2014 20:32:30 GMT

+1 for this

fhntv24fhntv24@… — Mon, 15 Dec 2014 22:29:51 GMT

+1 for this.

londinop@… — Fri, 20 Feb 2015 00:47:32 GMT

+1 for this.

anonymous — Mon, 23 Mar 2015 10:39:27 GMT

anonymous — Tue, 24 Mar 2015 11:05:46 GMT

jarruda — Wed, 29 Apr 2015 06:22:05 GMT

Could a contributor at least comment on this? This at least seems like a "must-have" feature for any utility file system API. 4 years is a pretty long time for a simple feature request to not be acknowledged.

anonymous — Wed, 29 Apr 2015 18:17:32 GMT

Have you not seen the other 2692 active tickets they're equally busy ignoring? ;)

status, milestone changed; resolution set

Beman Dawes — Sat, 05 Sep 2015 18:32:42 GMT

status new → closed
resolution → fixed
milestone To Be Determined → Boost 1.60.0

Boost 1.60.0 will add functions lexically_normal, lexically_relative, relative, and weakly_canonical. These are designed to provide the functionality requested by this ticket.

See http://boostorg.github.io/filesystem/relative_proposal.html for more information. It proposes additional lexical and operational proximate functions, but I have chosen not to include those now. They will be reconsidered once users get some field experience with the core functionality for computing relative paths.

These function are available now on the https://github.com/boostorg/filesystem develop branch, and will be merged to master as soon as sufficient regression tests have cycled. They will also be proposed for inclusion in the next version of the C++ committee's TS 18822, File System Technical Specification.

Many thanks to Jamie Allsop for his help and perseverance, and to everyone else who made suggestions and comments. Jamie's paper is available at https://github.com/ja11sop/std-filesystem-relative

Thanks,

--Beman