Hi,
Sean has left the following comment at Categorize all of BRL-CAD's commands
into a spreadsheet
http://www.google-melange.com/gci/task/view/google/gci2012/7987215:
original task
Well the original task was to define the inputs, outputs, and params
because that information isn't all available in one place. That, however,
is way too much work for a single GCI task. That's why the new goal is to
just categorize them, which requires (quickly) figuring out what each
command does.
There's about 400 commands total. 90% of those will give you a simple usage
statement or help message when you run them without any options or with a
-? or -h option. Half or two-thirds have a detailed manual page (eg, run
brlman rt).
Once you figure out what a few of the commands do, you quickly learn what a
100 others do because they're all designed in a similar fashion. So you'll
quickly be able to infer what a command does. For example, you might read
in the bw-pix manual page that it's an image converter that converts .bw
format images to .pix format images. When you later see pix-png, it should
be pretty obvious that it converts a .pix format image to a .png format
image without even looking at the docs. A quick 5-sec scan of its manual
page confirms the guess.
Both of those would probably be categorized as an "image_converter"
initially at least until you encountered 30+ of them. It's also okay to put
a single tool into multiple categories.
Greetings,
The Google Open Source Programs Team
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