Hello,
I'm not entirely familiar with the situation. But if it's decided to go
for this, it sounds like an interesting GSOC idea to me. As far as I know,
most popular geom kernels are relatively old, so we could benefit from
having a geom kernel based on new technology.
On Mar 14, 2014 12:41 PM, "Daniel Roßberg" <[email protected]>
wrote:
>
> There was an discussion on IRC if the C++ core interface could be
> developed to a independent geometric kernel with a distinct handy.
Wouldn't that involve some major rewrite ?
> name. Personally I'm open for this idea. If it's advertised
> appropriate such that there is no confusion of how it's related to the
> core BRL-CAD it could be a benefit.
>
> How could this be launched?
> - Choose a name
> - Coding style: It's currently different from the main trunk, but this
> isn't necessarily a drawback. We once talked about moving to
> space-only indents in BRL-CAD sources. Besides the C++ interface uses
> camel-case for class and function names. This is much more common in
> C++ programming, i.e. the user will feel at home with this.
> - Two version of the library?
> - Redistributable library: Stand alone with calls to TCL replaced
> with dummy functions (like the brlcad.dll)
> - On top of the BRL-CAD libraries: Comes with the BRL-CAD program
> installation
> - Where should the source code go? Stay in rt^3 or move to the main
trunk?
>
> Any thoughts, comments etc. are welcome.
>
>
> Regards,
> Daniel
>
>
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My opinion is that having an independent kernel would allow to reconsider
the software architecture, especially since brlcad contains legacy code
aswell.
As I said, I m interested in this idea provided we can reach a consensus.
Andrei
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