Re: [Inkscape-devel] Proposal: use std::iostream and friends instead of Inkscape::IO

Jon A. Cruz wrote:

On Mar 12, 2008, at 7:58 PM, Jon A. Cruz wrote: ...

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• Our base input/output stream classes. These are is directly
• inherited from iostreams, and includes any extra
• functionality that we might need.

I failed to notice that comment somehow, . I was also a bit puzzled that there are "OutputStreams" and "Writers" instead of "stringbufs" and "streams". I'll look into that a bit more once I'm done with the clipboard.

I know that using bare iostreams would cause breakage if someone attempted to use them for console output and I have learned it the hard way :) (though I think Gettext would take care of the needed encoding conversions). But writing UTF-8 only files, like the SVG ones, should be fine.

Anyway, I think removing super-ancient and not very clean code (e.g. main.cpp, *-chemistry.cpp etc.) is more important than purism debates.

Regards, Krzysztof (Chris) Kosiński