RE: A standardized pathnames package for Ada 2005?

["Robert C. Leif" <rleif@rleif.com>]

Yes. But it should NOT be part of the Ada standard. It should be a
collection of application interfaces. Since most computers have browsers,
Internet paths may be close to a universal solution.
Bob Leif

-----Original Message-----
From: comp.lang.ada-admin@ada.eu.org [mailto:comp.lang.ada-admin@ada.eu.org]
On Behalf Of Bill Findlay
Sent: Tuesday, December 17, 2002 11:05 AM
To: comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org
Subject: A standardized pathnames package for Ada 2005?

Is there any work on / interest in a package to make it easy to synthesize
and analyze compound (path) names?

This crops up a lot, not only as Windows or Unix filenames,
but with things like Tcl widget names.

It might usefully be generic, on parameters such as the max. length of a
nodename, the max. length of the full pathname, the nodename separator,
whether there is a distinguished root nodename and its separator, etc.

Should it handle little-endian pathnames, with the root at the right,
like Internet domain names?

-- 
Bill-Findlay chez blue-yonder.co.uk ("-" => "")