[Somelib] SOME::Path changed - RegEx and BSD compile fix are next

[John P. <jo...@ma...>]

Hope you have had a good Thanksgiving.

SOME:Path has changed to Path encapsulating the platform specific code
of PathDriver. (Before XPPath was being inherited by platform specific
code Path).  PathDriver should be duplicated under the HPUX and Windows
directory and changed to reflect the platform (ie __IS_DIR back to
_IS_DIR).  From our last e-mail I got the impression that directory
searching is the same on Windows, Linux and HPUX (except for the
macro)?  Is this true for Windows 9x or just NT (I know NT is somewhat
Posix complient for military use).  I would like to keep these seperate
for different platforms even if they are the same on these three
platforms, being that it will make it easyer to port to some esoteric OS
that does not support Posix.  Am I wrong in stating that opendir,
closedir, etc. are not ANSI standards?  If they are then the PathDriver
is redundant and can be folded into Path.

I will  beimplementing simple regular expressions for file searching
next.  I am still not sure about using boost.  How are their feelings if
we take their code LGPL?  I can see using smart pointers but the Regular
Expression code is going to be highly modified.  Will this meen that
under their licence I can not make someone give back code if they modify
the RegEx portion of the code?  I also feel bad about taking someones
code and making it completely open if they wish that people can use it
in closed source apps.  I havn't looked at it yet and I have a feeling
that it is a bit more complicated than we need anyway.  All I want is
the old dos pattern matching.  * for wildcard, ? for 1 char wildcard and
the rest literals.

--Quinticent