[jira] [Commented] (ARROW-6743) [C++] Completely remove usage of boost::filesystem (except in hdfs_internal)

["Antoine Pitrou (Jira)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Antoine Pitrou commented on ARROW-6743:
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References:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTFS_links
https://docs.microsoft.com/fr-fr/windows/win32/fileio/determining-whether-a-directory-is-a-volume-mount-point


> [C++] Completely remove usage of boost::filesystem (except in hdfs_internal)
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: ARROW-6743
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-6743
>             Project: Apache Arrow
>          Issue Type: Task
>          Components: C++
>            Reporter: Antoine Pitrou
>            Priority: Major
>             Fix For: 2.0.0
>
>
> We probably want to do this at some point. It will remove one fragility in the build system (currently, we select whether we need {{boost::filesystem}} or not depending on the selected build options, then set the {{ARROW_WITH_BOOST_FILESYSTEM}} macro that triggers compiling different versions of a couple utility functions).



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