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

Hello,

I had a look at the stream classes used to output SVG to flies and memory while working on fixing the clipboard bug. The functionality of those classes is largely the same as std::iostream and the related class hierarchy. I think Inkscape could switch from its own stream implementation to the standard library streams. This would, among other things, reduce the complexity of the application and the size of the codebase.

Is there some good reason Inkscape uses its own stream implementation instead of the standard streams?

BTW, you might want to look at this before replying: http://spec.winprog.org/streams/

Regards, Krzysztof (Chris) Kosiński