Wankers, I've just inherited a mess of VB6 code that uses geometric networking in ArcObjects for some compelling hydrography generalization. I've been given marching orders to turn this into Python code. I won't go into the details of the ensuing argument or the obscenities that almost rolled off my tongue... But the originating though is that the current mess of code, like much ESRI-centric code, doesn't handle ESRI's version upgrades well. In fact, on one target machine, some Windows Updates kill the code and require a reinstall of ArcGIS. So the goal is to move it to something more stable. The ESRI line is upgrade the code to .NET in VB or C#. But those giving me orders feel that this won't improve things - and that Python will.
I don't want to rewrite the geometric networking functionality in Python/OGR. I could use IronPython and have access to ArcObjects. But I probably can't require the end users to install anything beyond the stock ESRI kit. I think I'm screwed. Thoughts? -Eric P.S. WhereCamp5280 in a little over a week. Weather should be hot and the beer cold. Come join us in Denver! -=--=---=----=----=---=--=-=--=---=----=---=--=-=- Eric B. Wolf New! 720-334-7734 USGS Geographer Center of Excellence in GIScience PhD Student CU-Boulder - Geography
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