[Insight-developers] itkIOCommon

[Mark Foskey]

Bill Hoffman's idea of moving cmTools wholesale into itk/Code/Common 
sounds like a good one.  I already said so in a message that only went 
to Bill because I used the wrong Reply option.

Kent Williams wrote:
> I have been adding stuff to itkIOCommon and I'm sorry for any build breaks 
> that were my fault.  I have been looking at CMake/Source/cmTools, and it 
> supplies all the functions I can foresee needing for file system 
> manipulation, so simply borrowing it from Cmake would be fine with me.  
> 
> One question about config -- according to
> 
> http://www.itk.org/Testing/Sites/luria.uiowa/IRIX64_MIPSpro7.3.1.3m-DEBUG/20030314-0500-Nightly/BuildError.html
> 
> Including unistd.h on SGI systems causes problems because of multiple function 
> signatures with "C" linkage for the select system call.  This is kind of 
> strange, since getcwd is only defined in unistd.h on the SGI.
> 
> On Friday 14 March 2003 07:59 am, Bill Hoffman wrote:
> 
>>Hi,
>>
>>I saw the new class itkIOCommon (because of the errors it was causing). 
>>This class looks almost the same in functionality as
>>CMake/Source/cmSystemTools.    Perhaps we should think about moving
>>cmSystemTools into Code/Common of ITK.   This class provides a set of
>>platform independent functions for file and string manipulation.
>>
>>At a minimum, it should be looked at for ideas in itkIOCommon.
>>We have this class working on more platforms and compilers than ITK right
>>now, so it should be safe to copy stuff out of this class.
>>
>>
>>-Bill
>>
>>
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