Thilo Kielmann wrote:
If we agree to restrict strings to relative paths, which use cases are we missing? What can NOT be expresed then? We can still do the following:
saga::directory dir(url); dir.copy("sub/*/bla[1-9].doc",target-url);
Which can be, for the running aplication, a third-party copy, honoring wild cards.
Agreed.
I can currently not think of any use case where it would be a problem to first create the dir object first (and instead do the same copy with two URLs directly, but then on which directory object???)
There were no use cases that required wildcards anyway. I asked Andre some time ago, and he said that people requested the feature, but that it was not explicit in any of the use cases.
To summarize:
I hereby propose to limit the use of wild cards to strings, and in there to relative paths, because this: - is sufficiently different from absolute URLs to avoid confusion - is sufficiently expressive
A very thorough and well-put discussion! I agree. Ceriel