I am going to continue work on the gdal ogr code. via the directdwg layer. I think it will be great to have a compatible api.
if you have any legal issues with what I am doing, please tell me. mike On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 3:23 PM, Rodrigo Rodrigues da Silva <pita...@members.fsf.org> wrote: > > > On 06-05-2010 12:10, Frank Warmerdam wrote: >> >> I personally >> think the DWGdirect API is fairly clumsy and large and it would not >> necessarily be a good idea to tie to it. > > I agree. I've been dealing with a dwg import plugin on GRASS that uses > DWGDirect. I am porting it to LibreDWG. It is fairly simple (it imports > lines, polylines, circles and blocks/inserts), but I had a lot of work to > move it to the LibreDWG API - which is a lot easier to use. > > I think we should not rely on DWGDirect's API, but a compatibility layer > that would make migration to LibreDWG easier would be welcome if there > aren't any copyright issues. We should check with the FSF lawyers before > commiting that to savannah. > > -- > Rodrigo Rodrigues da Silva > GNU LibreDWG maintainer > FSF Associate Member #7788 > PoliGNU - Grupo de Estudos de Software Livre da Poli/USP > > >
