-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Robert Osfield wrote: > Hi Jan, > > On 8/13/07, Jan Ciger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> In fact, if somebody had a small parser for VRML we could ditch OpenVRML >> completely (a big dependency by itself). It was used only because I >> didn't have time to write a VRML parser from scratch at the time. > > A dependency on something like libxml2 would certainly be lighter > weight than OpenVML and certainly better than OpenVML + Boost.
True, but I didn't find a suitable library for this yet. VRML is a mess to parse, with many elements being optional, but you still need to be able to handle them. Moreover, plenty of software generates broken VRML, which doesn't really follow the standard. I guess that is why nobody is very keen on writing a parser for it. > > However, I don't have the time to go a write such a parser so it'd > have to be a community contribution. Same here - that's why OpenVRML was used. > > W.r.t Boost dependency, I'm open to this for very specific optional > plugins, but certainly not in the core OSG as I'm trying to keep a lid > on the number of external dependencies that the core OSG has. Sure, I also wouldn't like Boost as a core OSG dependency. I am not convinced that it is even needed for the VRML plugin, because it really adds little. Jan -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mandriva - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGwDpRn11XseNj94gRAiE8AJ9T/Qi7mtqynI9jYFmsb6VNoN9TFwCfW9HR wLOmuR2ZgIWYsdskdd0Wv0o= =AHaB -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ osg-users mailing list osg-users@lists.openscenegraph.org http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.org
