[cmake-developers] Questions about coding conventions

[clinton at elemtech.com]

----- On Jun 14, 2016, at 8:09 AM, Daniel Pfeifer daniel at pfeifer-mail.de wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 3:14 PM, Brad King <brad.king at kitware.com> wrote:
>> On 06/13/2016 10:16 AM, Brad King wrote:
>>>> Can't `std::ifstream` and `std::ofstream` be used directly? It seams
>>>> that kwsys does some workarounds
>>>
>>> Yes, std::{o,f}stream can be used directly.
>>
>> On second thought, std::{i,o}fstream should not be used to open files.
>> The cmsys::{i,o}fstream interfaces are not about compatibility, they
>> are about opening files on Windows using the wide character APIs by
>> converting from UTF-8 to UCS-2.
> 
> I see.
> 
> There are a few uses of std::{i,o}fstream. I guess we should migrate
> them all to kwsys.

Yes.  Thanks.
cmsys::{i,o}fstream is to support additional filenames on Windows by not using obsolete ANSI apis.

Clint