Revision: 68854
http://sourceforge.net/p/brlcad/code/68854
Author: brlcad
Date: 2016-09-20 03:29:07 +0000 (Tue, 20 Sep 2016)
Log Message:
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'purge' may be a good candidate replacement for garbage_collect since it avoids
some other connotations and would generalize well to some other purposes
(including unpurging). expand notes on audit and a geometry calculator (liking
gc).
Modified Paths:
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brlcad/trunk/src/libged/TODO
Modified: brlcad/trunk/src/libged/TODO
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--- brlcad/trunk/src/libged/TODO 2016-09-19 21:08:12 UTC (rev 68853)
+++ brlcad/trunk/src/libged/TODO 2016-09-20 03:29:07 UTC (rev 68854)
@@ -11,7 +11,10 @@
* merge get_eyemodel's functionality as "view eyemodel" sub-command
-* convert garbage_collect Tcl to "db compact" subcommand in libged
+* convert garbage_collect Tcl to libged. naming options include
+ "compact", "purge", "compress". possibly as subcommand to "db".
+ possible generalization to remove unused/unreferenced objects of
+ particular type (e.g., prims, combs, regions, all).
--- NEW COMMANDS ---
@@ -37,7 +40,11 @@
* 'audit' command: determine if the model is valid, provide option(s)
to fix any errors encountered. this could be a refactoring or
- calling of glint and/or other tools.
+ calling of glint and/or other tools. this ideally needs to separate
+ geometric validation (e.g., defines a solid volume, no overlaps)
+ from policy/business/convention validation (e.g., uses proper naming
+ convention, unique region IDs), possibly providing predefined
+ auditing profiles similar to nirt's predefined output formats.
* 'array' command: to create a shallow copy of geometry in a
rectangular or polar pattern. similar to clone, perhaps mergeable
@@ -91,7 +98,9 @@
normals, distances, ... powerful calculator for those places where
the user needs some value we don't display for them (like needing to
calculate a distance between two nirt rays, or something that always
- prints mm, or a command that print radians instead of degrees).
+ prints mm, or a command that print radians instead of
+ degrees). basically a geometric version of 'expr'. alternate names
+ include calc, gcalc, expr, gexpr, gc.
* 'compile' command: evaluate and cache results of geometry
computations for improved performance. this could be a variety of
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