Re: [brlcad-devel] Question concerning dsp-creation and subsequent g-stl export

2008-09-10 Thread Christopher Sean Morrison
Sean Morrison [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Mittwoch, 10. September 2008 03:35 An: Bengt Wennehorst Cc: brlcad-devel@lists.sourceforge.net; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: Re: Question concerning dsp-creation and subsequent g-stl export Bengt, Hello and thanks for writing! The error message

Re: [brlcad-devel] [brlcad-users] crash in db_dump

2008-09-24 Thread Christopher Sean Morrison
Do you mean what's wrong with that code besides the fact that you sent code to the users mailing list instead of the devel list? :-) There's nothing wrong with that code. After several hours debugging, poking, prodding, and testing, it turns out that you uncovered a bug that was about 8

Re: [brlcad-devel] Fwd: gsoc: Libpc

2008-10-05 Thread Christopher Sean Morrison
Take #5. Still debugging with sf.net staff. New datacenter so maybe this one will finally make it through.. On Sunday, August 24, 2008, at 02:54AM, Christopher Sean Morrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Feel free to ignore this message if it makes it through. I'm debugging a mailing list

Re: [brlcad-devel] Bug in 7.14.0 Configuration

2008-11-12 Thread Christopher Sean Morrison
Tom, Ah, that's actually a bug in automake. The rule that builds bombardier already had those two CPPFLAGS set but just set on that product -- AM_CPPFLAGS sets it on all of them in that directory. Automake 1.8 (iirc) and later don't have the bug, but the fix is to just make it a

Re: [brlcad-devel] BRL-CAD Configure Message: IEEE Floating Point Handling Incorrect

2009-01-10 Thread Christopher Sean Morrison
Tom, No, it's not a bug but it is an an (completely unverified) potential issue inside our serialization code. The test was added to see how prevalent non-IEEE floating point types are (which is actually exceptionally prevalent). Whether and implementation is complaint is dependent on

Re: [brlcad-devel] Summary from yesterday's discussions re: parametrics/constraints

2009-03-24 Thread Christopher Sean Morrison
On Monday, March 23, 2009, at 10:19AM, Bryan Bishop kanz...@gmail.com wrote: I see. I need to think some more about how to represent the difference between explicit and implicit constraints if something like GraphSynth were to be used. Implicit constraints seem to be attached to objects, while

Re: [brlcad-devel] W98SE install of v7.12.6

2009-04-15 Thread Christopher Sean Morrison
Phil, It should open up two windows, an mged command window and an mged graphics window. That's a bit surprising to hear about the DLL issues with the batch script, but something to be looked into. The file conversion support on Windows is less than ideal at the moment for a variety of

Re: [brlcad-devel] RT^3 src/ re-org proposal

2009-04-17 Thread Christopher Sean Morrison
to implement dependency search in a reusable way for a variety of packages. Sharing these files between projects would reduce redundancy in both development efforts and the repository itself. Christopher Sean Morrison wrote: Kudos and thanks to Dave for taking the initiative. Great work

Re: [brlcad-devel] [brlcad-commits] SF.net SVN: brlcad:[36571] brlcad/trunk/src/nirt/showshot.c

2009-11-20 Thread Christopher Sean Morrison
I thought the same thing when I saw the previous mod from Bob. bu_fgets() is already taking care of the line ending portably so it shouldn't matter if there's a newline. If it does matter, that's certainly not sufficient. Maybe when it was just fgets() that was some hack to help looping

Re: [brlcad-devel] [brlcad-commits] SF.net SVN: brlcad:[37059] brlcad/trunk/src/conv/step

2009-12-29 Thread Christopher Sean Morrison
Sanity check, were the changes to PullbackCurve intentional? Noticed that the seam tolerance was loosened when you removed some unreachable code. Nice quellage! Cheers! Sean On Tuesday, December 29, 2009, at 07:31AM, indianla...@users.sourceforge.net wrote: Revision: 37059

[brlcad-devel] windows tclIndex file

2009-12-30 Thread Christopher Sean Morrison
Bob et al, We were discussing bug #2923199 [1] last night and the speculation seems to be true, that the tclIndex file is not getting generated fully on Windows. The file is missing an assortment of entries (shown at the end), which means they probably just fail to process for some

Re: [brlcad-devel] Makefile.am and second tutorial

2010-01-06 Thread Christopher Sean Morrison
Fantastic work, Jesica! I believe the azimuth/elevation/twist geometry model is saved somewhere so we can recreate the image. The text was a simply overlay done in an image editing program, though, so we could just remake it. We could perhaps make the image layered (with text in a separate

Re: [brlcad-devel] BRL-CAD version information for users

2010-01-21 Thread Christopher Sean Morrison
Delayed response but I put some more thought into this problem recently... On Tuesday, July 14, 2009, at 09:24AM, Daniel Roßberg danielmrossb...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi, There were put a lot of effort into hiding any version number define and/or constant from the user. Now I'm in doubt if

Re: [brlcad-devel] brlcad 7-16-4 openNURBS compilation problem

2010-02-12 Thread Christopher Sean Morrison
Sinclair, We investigated this issue a few days ago and it turns out there's a bug in GCC. More specifically, it's a bug in the STL headers that gcc provides. We've applied a work-around fix that will be in a future release, but the problem should be reported upstream to the gcc folks

Re: [brlcad-devel] BRL-CAD version information for users

2010-02-18 Thread Christopher Sean Morrison
On Jan 29, 2010, at 9:01 AM, Daniel Roßberg wrote: Well, let me try to explain my concern more precisely. I'm programming closed source software using the BRL-CAD core libraries. And because of the LGPL I'm using the BRL-CAD code via a dynamically linkable library. However, it turned out

Re: [brlcad-devel] [brlcad-commits] SF.net SVN: brlcad:[37852] brlcad/trunk/src/libfb/if_tk.c

2010-03-02 Thread Christopher Sean Morrison
So in this commit, you'll notice how you made the child exit. Instead of the child exiting, have it send the parent a close message via write() and let it return. When the parent gets that particular message, it'll kick out of the while loop, then should bu_exit(). That way, the child will

Re: [brlcad-devel] openNURBS Make Warnings Still an Irritant

2010-04-13 Thread Christopher Sean Morrison
On Apr 13, 2010, at 12:02, Tom Browder tom.brow...@gmail.com wrote: Using gcc-4.4.3 I still get the old warnings about type qualifiers being ignored on function return types (as in opennurbs_light.h, opennurbs_base64.h, et al.). I first notified the opennurbs folks with a patch back in

Re: [brlcad-devel] Old E-mail

2010-04-19 Thread Christopher Sean Morrison
Yes, pretty much everything is still available. A lot of the old discussions are archived in the source repository in the doc/html/ReleaseNotes directory where there are indices for the e-mails that led up to the 2.0, 3.0, 3.1, 4.0, 4.4, and 5.0 releases. Alas, the release 6 and 7 e-mail

Re: [brlcad-devel] A New Compile Error Using the Trunk and My App

2010-04-20 Thread Christopher Sean Morrison
Basically, we need to ensure that the stdint.h types are provided regardless of that header being supported (as it's a C99 header and we're still only *requiring* C90 compliance). So right now, the inclusion of that header was set to key off of symbols that stdint.h provides or the

Re: [brlcad-devel] A New Compile Error Using the Trunk and My App

2010-04-20 Thread Christopher Sean Morrison
On Apr 20, 2010, at 6:46 PM, Tom Browder wrote: I'm not complaining--just don't understand yet what happened between gcc-4.4.3 and gcc-4.5.0. That's certainly a curiosity, but probably something along the lines of they fixed the glitch. I suspect stdint.h was getting included by some

Re: [brlcad-devel] A New Compile Error Using the Trunk and My App [SOLVED]

2010-04-21 Thread Christopher Sean Morrison
On Apr 21, 2010, at 10:54 AM, Tom Browder wrote: Good work! It works without my adding a define and with the default g++-4.5.0 configuration. Excellent! For your info, the attached file has that output. The relevant macros which triggered inclusion of stdint.h in common.h are:

Re: [brlcad-devel] stabilizing for 7.16.8 release prep

2010-04-23 Thread Christopher Sean Morrison
On Friday, April 23, 2010, at 08:30AM, Tom Browder tom.brow...@gmail.com wrote: FYI, I built and successfully did a make check on trunk revision 38760 (Ubuntu 9.10, x86_84, gcc-4.5.0). I also successfully built my three packages that use BRL-CAD. Fantastic. Couldn't it fail more gracefully?

Re: [brlcad-devel] stabilizing for 7.16.8 release prep

2010-04-23 Thread Christopher Sean Morrison
On Friday, April 23, 2010, at 12:55PM, Tom Browder tom.brow...@gmail.com wrote: I just submitted a patch to the tracker that adds a g++ anti-warning for the opennurbs build. Patch affects two files: Hm! Just yesterday, after our talk, I added anti-warning (-w) to almost all of the src/other

Re: [brlcad-devel] [brlcad-commits] SF.net SVN: brlcad:[38782] brlcad/trunk/src/libfb

2010-04-26 Thread Christopher Sean Morrison
On Monday, April 26, 2010, at 11:39AM, Tom Browder tom.brow...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 10:35, brl...@users.sourceforge.net wrote: Revision: 38782          http://brlcad.svn.sourceforge.net/brlcad/?rev=38782view=rev Author:   brlcad Date:     2010-04-26 15:35:18 + (Mon,

Re: [brlcad-devel] standard attribute names

2010-05-12 Thread Christopher Sean Morrison
On Wednesday, May 12, 2010, at 04:01PM, Tom Browder tom.brow...@gmail.com wrote: Right now I read the attributes and take them as I find them (and report unknown attributes found), but I sure like the idea of better BRL-CAD attribute standards. How would you implement the case insensitivity?

Re: [brlcad-devel] standard attribute names

2010-05-13 Thread Christopher Sean Morrison
On Wednesday, May 12, 2010, at 07:31PM, Tom Browder tom.brow...@gmail.com wrote: Well, in AJEM the air code as an integer can have various values to indicate various types of air for compartments. Here is an extract of Table 5.4.1-1, Air Code Associations for Ground Mobile Vehicles, in the

Re: [brlcad-devel] standard attribute names

2010-05-13 Thread Christopher Sean Morrison
On Thursday, May 13, 2010, at 05:04PM, Tom Browder tom.brow...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 15:16, Christopher Sean Morrison brl...@mac.com wrote: ... That said, 'aircode' is one of those non-geometric properties that would be nice to get rid of (i.e., let applications set

Re: [brlcad-devel] Aids to Update ChangeLog (TODO)

2010-06-02 Thread Christopher Sean Morrison
User mike is indeed Mike Muuss. Another view of the users is on the ohloh.net project page: https://www.ohloh.net/p/brlcad/contributors That one has the added benefit of combining multiple usernames into one where a dev commits under multiple account names. Given the migration from an

Re: [brlcad-devel] metaballs.pl

2010-06-22 Thread Christopher Sean Morrison
be in your PATH. Some implementations don't split arguments so it might be trying to invoke perl -w as a command instead of perl with a - w argument. How does r39646 look? Cheers! Sean On Jun 22, 2010, at 11:04 AM, Tom Browder wrote: On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 09:17, Christopher Sean

Re: [brlcad-devel] I am new to the brl-cad world

2010-08-11 Thread Christopher Sean Morrison
Zhizhu, What Tom Browder replied is spot on -- it's the *best* advice on places to begin without knowing more about exactly what you're trying to accomplish. More information is required to help you, otherwise the answer to your question is simply maybe. For example, I know from the

Re: [brlcad-devel] I am new to the brl-cad world

2010-08-11 Thread Christopher Sean Morrison
On Aug 12, 2010, at 12:26 AM, Jean-Luc Delatre wrote: I would suggest using http://openscad.org/ to create the geometry and importing the STL into BRL-CAD for whatever else you want to do. Wow. I wouldn't. That would be exceptionally counter-productive if you intend to use the geometry

Re: [brlcad-devel] I am new to the brl-cad world (Christopher Sean Morrison)

2010-08-12 Thread Christopher Sean Morrison
On Aug 12, 2010, at 3:04 AM, 张知竹 wrote: Sean, What a surprise you can know what I need from CGAL mailing list! :) Yes, I am trying to creat geometry, and it's just my first step. After creating geometry, I need to mesh it as I wish, for example, I may mesh a cylinder into four equal

Re: [brlcad-devel] .deb packages (Debian, Ubuntu, ...) for 7.16.10

2010-08-30 Thread Christopher Sean Morrison
On Aug 27, 2010, at 6:40 PM, Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo wrote: https://devel.adenu.ia.uned.es/~mafm/deb/brlcad/ For people with Debian-based systems and experience with BRL-CAD, please check them out them and let me know me whether you find some problems with them or not. Awesome!

Re: [brlcad-devel] .deb packages (Debian, Ubuntu, ...) for 7.16.10

2010-08-31 Thread Christopher Sean Morrison
On Aug 31, 2010, at 7:47 AM, Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo wrote: Well, in order to get it in the official Debian repositories (and that means Ubuntu almost automatically, and a bunch of other derivatives), the main things that need to happen are: All things that have happened before

Re: [brlcad-devel] .deb packages (Debian, Ubuntu, ...) for 7.16.10

2010-09-01 Thread Christopher Sean Morrison
On Aug 31, 2010, at 8:43 PM, Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo wrote: Debian follows FHS, with the link above explaining the content of the sections. And any standard imposes pedantic policies (e.g. - pedantic flag in GCC ;) ). Even Debian has plenty of exceptions to the FHS. The FHS has

Re: [brlcad-devel] .deb packages (Debian, Ubuntu, ...) for 7.16.10

2010-09-01 Thread Christopher Sean Morrison
On Sep 1, 2010, at 10:22 AM, Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo wrote: OK, so I modify the installation process in the Debian packages so it puts them in man3/, and rename to 3cad when needed. Other than that, the more things of the lintian log that I sent previously, the better. I need a

Re: [brlcad-devel] BRL-CAD Database V6

2010-09-02 Thread Christopher Sean Morrison
Tom, You can't find a whole lot of details about v6 because they're not yet implemented for rel8. The bulk details for what would be desirable to have in v6 are listed at the bottom of the TODO file. Those are but a subset and in a simple summary form, but might give you an idea. Feel

Re: [brlcad-devel] Need Compile Time Version Info for BRL-CAD

2010-09-03 Thread Christopher Sean Morrison
On Sep 3, 2010, at 5:55 PM, Tom Browder wrote: Attached is an m4 source file to be input to m4 to generate a special header file in the include directory to satisfy my itch to have some cpp-usable macros for conditional compilation. Note that it doesn't have to be used by anyone, but it

Re: [brlcad-devel] BRL-CAD Database V6

2010-09-05 Thread Christopher Sean Morrison
On Sep 5, 2010, at 1:08 PM, Tom Browder wrote: I've been wondering if we could save rays in a database (persistent data). We probably could, but it would only be useful if a given ray and geometry model were exactly the same. Rays have extremely very low latency overhead (which is why

[brlcad-devel] BRL-CAD 7.16.10

2010-09-07 Thread Christopher Sean Morrison
Given we bumped minor and 7.16.10 was the last stable on that line, my thoughts on this month's iteration were to continue with release binaries. Several of them were updated last month for release, but others are still remaining. We still need to build and post (in priority order): *

Re: [brlcad-devel] BRL-CAD Database V6

2010-09-08 Thread Christopher Sean Morrison
On Sep 5, 2010, at 8:02 PM, Tom Browder wrote: Some user responsibility needed here: read-only tgm, md5 or similar hash of db for check, same key in ray db. The time it would take to compute and validate an md5 rivals the time it would take to reshoot the ray, so you'd need to bundle rays

Re: [brlcad-devel] Rotation with command line

2010-09-20 Thread Christopher Sean Morrison
On Sep 17, 2010, at 4:18 AM, HUGONNARD Patrick wrote: Hi, I want to rotate an object (box) around his origin. When I execute the attached script in the Mged command window, rotation is well done around the box origin. But, when I execute the instruction mged test.g source test.inp

Re: [brlcad-devel] [brlcad-commits] SF.net SVN: brlcad:[40637] rt^3/trunk/cmake/FindBRLCAD.cmake

2010-09-21 Thread Christopher Sean Morrison
Space delimited? What about paths with spaces in them? Escaped? On Sep 21, 2010, at 12:49, davidlo...@users.sourceforge.net wrote: Revision: 40637 http://brlcad.svn.sourceforge.net/brlcad/?rev=40637view=rev Author: davidloman Date: 2010-09-21 16:49:13 + (Tue, 21 Sep

Re: [brlcad-devel] Joining the brlcad-devel team

2010-10-05 Thread Christopher Sean Morrison
Welcome and thanks for introducing yourself, Ganesh! That's a great way to kick things off. Defining the look/layout/feel for what a given 2D 'blueprint' might be like. What syntactic, semantic, pragmatic information could be and needs to be included? What would an example sheet

Re: [brlcad-devel] Joining the brlcad-devel team

2010-10-07 Thread Christopher Sean Morrison
On Oct 7, 2010, at 9:50 AM, Ganeshram Iyer wrote: Wow Cliff. Thanks for all the links. Thats enough reading material for me for a few days or perhaps weeks. While I start preparing a report of what I find, is there any preferred format that BRL-CAD developers use (PDF, MS Word, Open

Re: [brlcad-devel] Spam/Ads on the list.

2010-10-08 Thread Christopher Sean Morrison
On Oct 7, 2010, at 9:36 PM, Loui Chang wrote: Do these ads on the list bother anyone else? They seem to get quoted often enough in replies as well - which are then archived. I imagine this can pollute search results as well. While I undoubtedly may miss one from time to time, I make sure

Re: [brlcad-devel] Microsoft Visual Studio C++ and BRL-CAD

2010-10-29 Thread Christopher Sean Morrison
On Oct 29, 2010, at 2:24 PM, Tom Browder wrote: 1. What version of MSVC++ is recommended? MS Visual Studio 2005 (i.e., msvc8) is what is currently used the most amongst the devs, though anything newer should also work without too much fuss. 2. What version or combination of the BRL-CAD

Re: [brlcad-devel] Microsoft Visual Studio C++ and BRL-CAD

2010-10-29 Thread Christopher Sean Morrison
On Oct 29, 2010, at 3:11 PM, Tom Browder wrote: Thanks, Erik--nice summary and sounds like a good chunk of info for inserting into HACKING (or some other appropriate document)! The doc/README.Windows file has some of the platform-specific information mentioned. Feel free to expand

Re: [brlcad-devel] NMG metrics

2010-11-26 Thread Christopher Sean Morrison
On Nov 26, 2010, at 3:36 AM, Christopher Sean Morrison wrote: That's allowing 5min per conversion and is about what I'd expect. Here's the count when we only allow 5sec per conversion: Failures: 155 NMG, 185 BoT Heh, that's not too informative. The line should have been: Failures

[brlcad-devel] conversion stats on a geometry motherload

2010-12-03 Thread Christopher Sean Morrison
I've been putting geometry through the sh/conversion.sh script like wheat through a combine harvester and am now starting to get a good sense of our conversion rate. For the past couple days, the script has been chewing through about two hundred real target description models and the

Re: [brlcad-devel] Scripting TGMs: Which Method Is Preferred?

2011-01-05 Thread Christopher Sean Morrison
On Jan 4, 2011, at 2:21 PM, Tom Browder wrote: As I see it now, I can script (automate) the building of a BRL-CAD TGM in several ways, three of which are: 1. List mged commands in a file and source the file into mged $ mged -c tgm.g source-file 2. Write BRL-CAD TCL commands into a

Re: [brlcad-devel] conversion.sh: Is it Supposed to Work?

2011-01-05 Thread Christopher Sean Morrison
On Jan 5, 2011, at 1:23 PM, Tom Browder wrote: I saw from a TODO update that converison.sh is working. The working part was in regards to those two todo items that were removed. Specifically, the script sending itself a signal to halt jobs and adding parameters to include/exclude geometry

Re: [brlcad-devel] conversion.sh: Is it Supposed to Work?

2011-01-06 Thread Christopher Sean Morrison
On Jan 6, 2011, at 6:46 AM, Tom Browder wrote: Starts with no args fine. When trying on a file I get lines like this: oknmg: pass pass bot: 5 # printf: 1: %6l: invalid directive printf: 1: %6l: invalid directive oknmg: pass pass bot: 5 # printf: 1: %6l: invalid directive

Re: [brlcad-devel] conversion.sh: Is it Supposed to Work?

2011-01-06 Thread Christopher Sean Morrison
On Jan 6, 2011, at 12:23 PM, Tom Browder wrote: Aha, looks good, much better output! Run with no options on a .g file I get lines like: oknmg: pass bot: pass 0s#174 t.g:/t.s Hm, that doesn't look quite right. Does it report 0s for all lines? It should be an

Re: [brlcad-devel] conversion.sh: Is it Supposed to Work?

2011-01-06 Thread Christopher Sean Morrison
On Jan 6, 2011, at 1:29 PM, Tom Browder wrote: oknmg: pass bot: pass 0s #14 htruck.g:/C2203_0.s Hm, okay. It's not calculating the conversion run time. That's probably due to differences in the output of the time command. Can you run verbose and post the output?

Re: [brlcad-devel] conversion.sh: Is it Supposed to Work?

2011-01-06 Thread Christopher Sean Morrison
On Jan 6, 2011, at 2:39 PM, Tom Browder wrote: On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 13:30, Christopher Sean Morrison brl...@mac.com wrote: ... longer than 5min to convert and the expense becomes exponentially multiplied up the hierarchy since it's converting all objects by default (not just regions

Re: [brlcad-devel] conversion.sh: Is it Supposed to Work?

2011-01-06 Thread Christopher Sean Morrison
On Jan 6, 2011, at 3:25 PM, Tom Browder wrote: printf: 1: %l: invalid directive Fixed. -- Learn how Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) One Node allows customers to consolidate database storage, standardize their

Re: [brlcad-devel] [brlcad-commits] SF.net SVN: brlcad:[41993] brlcad/trunk/include/opennurbs_ext.h

2011-01-06 Thread Christopher Sean Morrison
This isn't right. It beaks encapsulation. There should not be code outside of librt calling opennurbs_ext funcs. On Jan 6, 2011, at 16:33, starsee...@users.sourceforge.net wrote: Revision: 41993 http://brlcad.svn.sourceforge.net/brlcad/?rev=41993view=rev Author: starseeker

Re: [brlcad-devel] Proposed Doc Project for Slack Times

2011-01-06 Thread Christopher Sean Morrison
On Jan 6, 2011, at 10:02 PM, Tom Browder wrote: Okay, my tool chain requires apache fop 1.0 and xsltproc (libxml2 and libxslt) and I'm producing pdf and html. If those requirements can be established in the svn tree we can lead toward a complete modern docbook set up (I haven't tested any

Re: [brlcad-devel] Proposed Doc Project for Slack Times

2011-01-06 Thread Christopher Sean Morrison
On Jan 6, 2011, at 10:02 PM, Tom Browder wrote: On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 20:36, Christopher Sean Morrison brl...@mac.com wrote: On Jan 6, 2011, at 18:02, Tom Browder tom.brow...@gmail.com wrote: The documentation on the wiki: http://brlcad.org/wiki/Users_group_presentations ... DocBook

Re: [brlcad-devel] Bug or user error: comment in tcl source for asc2g

2011-01-06 Thread Christopher Sean Morrison
On Jan 6, 2011, at 6:15 PM, Tom Browder wrote: Should I not expect comments to work? Sounds like a bug to me. Given they are simple text/tcl files, being able to add comments seems like a no-brainer. Cheers! Sean

Re: [brlcad-devel] Proposed Doc Project for Slack Times

2011-01-07 Thread Christopher Sean Morrison
On Jan 7, 2011, at 7:17 AM, Tom Browder wrote: The ppt directory is blocked from reading. Ooops! Fixed. -- Gaining the trust of online customers is vital for the success of any company that requires sensitive data

Re: [brlcad-devel] Proposed Doc Project for Slack Times

2011-01-07 Thread Christopher Sean Morrison
On Jan 7, 2011, at 7:54 AM, Tom Browder wrote: On a slight change of topic, the old BRL-CAD v5 database specification by Lee Butler and others is the draft (and is in DB format and pdf). Is there a final version somewhere? IMHO a final version should be on the wiki in place of the draft I

[brlcad-devel] when bad conversion stats get worse

2011-01-13 Thread Christopher Sean Morrison
So over the past month (32.87 days to be more precise), I've had the conversion script churning through a couple hundred real target models to see how bad things get. They're considerably worse than the sample geometry (~2%) and preliminary testing ( 7%). We're seem to be under 15%

Re: [brlcad-devel] Core dump attempting mged editing (red, edcodes, etc.) with null device, version 7.18.0

2011-01-13 Thread Christopher Sean Morrison
On Jan 12, 2011, at 10:38 AM, Tom Browder wrote: Well that work-around worked (but at the cost of installing heavyweight emacs: 78 Mb). On a lark I then removed emacs and did: sudo touch /usr/bin/DUMMY-FOR-MGED-BUG sudo ln -s /usr/bin/DUMMY-FOR-MGED-BUG /usr/bin/emacs which also

Re: [brlcad-devel] New brl-cad deb release

2011-01-19 Thread Christopher Sean Morrison
Jordi, That is just fantastic! I'd like to work on getting things set up so you can manage the port changes, but I have one question. In setting up the .deb package, did you start from scratch or utilize the existing Debian files in misc/debian? If you have updates to those files, those

Re: [brlcad-devel] Compiling and using BRL-CAD in situ

2011-01-21 Thread Christopher Sean Morrison
On Jan 21, 2011, at 6:58 AM, Tom Browder wrote: Is there some magic build incantation to allow using BRL-CAD inside the source tree without an install? The binaries can be run prior to install on most platforms. You do need to know where the build product resides, though. Take asc2g, for

Re: [brlcad-devel] Bugs in vls.c and tree.c

2011-01-21 Thread Christopher Sean Morrison
On Jan 21, 2011, at 11:28 AM, Tom Browder wrote: [snip] 1. vls.c bug: I would like to have two strings print like this 012345678901234567890 text value 1 longer textvalue 2 To do that I do this: int len = (int)strlen(longer text); /* len = 11 */ bu_vls_init(str);

Re: [brlcad-devel] Bugs in vls.c and tree.c

2011-01-21 Thread Christopher Sean Morrison
On Jan 21, 2011, at 5:05 PM, Christopher Sean Morrison wrote: I think I have a quick fix since there's already a flag for left alignment. I'll test it with a snippet here in a couple minutes. Fixed! Feel free to test and make sure I didn't goof something up. Cheers! Sean

Re: [brlcad-devel] C90 Too-long Strings

2011-02-12 Thread Christopher Sean Morrison
On Feb 12, 2011, at 11:50 AM, Tom Browder wrote: Some long strings giving C90 warning are usage strings used like so: const char usage [] = ...; /* too-long string gives warning ( 509 characters) */ ... bu_log(%s, usage); The following I believe works and it does eliminates warnings

Re: [brlcad-devel] HACKING and source code line lengths

2011-02-15 Thread Christopher Sean Morrison
On Feb 13, 2011, at 1:02 PM, Tom Browder wrote: I don't see any mention of code line lengths in HACKING. That's half-intentional since it's a bikeshed issue, there isn't an optimal solution, dogmatic rules in any direction will generally compromise readability for someone, and the code isn't

Re: [brlcad-devel] HACKING and source code line lengths

2011-02-15 Thread Christopher Sean Morrison
On Feb 15, 2011, at 10:04 PM, Tom Browder wrote: I agree with all that Sean (and I really prefer the one line per function argument), just looking for clarity (i.e., guidance--you know I have a son who is a lawyer). Completely understandable, they're all great questions. Fresh eyes,

Re: [brlcad-devel] red not working with EDITOR=vi, BRL-CAD 7.18.2, Ubuntu

2011-03-02 Thread Christopher Sean Morrison
On Mar 1, 2011, at 10:28 AM, Tom Browder wrote: I have EDITOR=vi. When I try to do a region edit with red, all looks fine as I edit with red. To save changes and quit I'm used to doing :wq and everything looks right as I exit, but changes are not saved. That doesn't sound good. Cliff

Re: [brlcad-devel] red not working with EDITOR=vi, BRL-CAD 7.18.2, Ubuntu

2011-03-03 Thread Christopher Sean Morrison
On Mar 2, 2011, at 10:37 AM, Tom Browder wrote: The bug is not on the trunk version. We need a new release soon. We are in the middle of release testing now (which was actually halted to investigate this and a couple other issues). The release show-stoppers are listed in TODO, but should

[brlcad-devel] Call for Mentors

2011-03-10 Thread Christopher Sean Morrison
Once again, we're applying to participate in the Google Summer of Code! If you're interested in being a mentor, you'll need to register and let me know your link_id. You'll need to go to http://www.google-melange.com/ (also known as http://socghop.appspot.com/ ), sign in on the left panel,

[brlcad-devel] BRL-CAD accepted for GSoC 2011

2011-03-21 Thread Christopher Sean Morrison
If you haven't heard the big news already, BRL-CAD was accepted (woo hoo!) as a mentoring organization for GSoC 2011. I would have already sent out mentor invites but the invite system has been temporarily disabled by Google until they roll out a new UI later this week. In the meantime, we

Re: [brlcad-devel] Hello everyone. I'm a student participating in the GSoC.

2011-03-23 Thread Christopher Sean Morrison
On Mar 22, 2011, at 5:42 PM, Brandon Hinesley wrote: I'm very interested in the development of a mature, solid modeling CAD software like BRL-CAD. starseeker has already helped point me in the right direction, but all tips, ideas, or suggestions for proposals are welcome. I'm a 26 year

Re: [brlcad-devel] GSoC Qt Display Manager

2011-03-23 Thread Christopher Sean Morrison
On Mar 23, 2011, at 11:23 AM, Seravalli Marco (Student Com8) wrote: Hi!! Hi Marco! I am a computer science student and interested in developing the Qt Display Manager Idea for GSoC. I have experience in c++ and qt programming. Fantastic. I would like to have some information about this

Re: [brlcad-devel] Our discussion on irc yesterday: serialization and network interface

2011-03-31 Thread Christopher Sean Morrison
On Mar 31, 2011, at 5:17 AM, Daniel Roßberg wrote: To be honest, I disapprove the latest changes on coreInterface. This library is intended to be an abstraction of BRL-CAD's core functions hiding the implementation details. Ideally it should be database version and implementation

Re: [brlcad-devel] [brlcad-commits] SF.net SVN: brlcad:[44153]brlcad/trunk (UNCLASSIFIED)

2011-04-04 Thread Christopher Sean Morrison
On Apr 4, 2011, at 10:15 AM, Parker, Robert (Civ, ARL/SLAD) wrote: I agree. But, unless I misunderstood, you told me to start migrating code that was generic enough to be used with JAVA, PYTHON, C/C++ etc. from LIBTCLCAD to LIBGED. I'll pull it out and put it somewhere else. I apparently

Re: [brlcad-devel] [brlcad-commits] SF.net SVN: brlcad:[44192] brlcad/trunk

2011-04-04 Thread Christopher Sean Morrison
On Apr 4, 2011, at 3:16 PM, bob1...@users.sourceforge.net wrote: Revision: 44192 http://brlcad.svn.sourceforge.net/brlcad/?rev=44192view=rev Author: bob1961 Date: 2011-04-04 19:16:06 + (Mon, 04 Apr 2011) Log Message: --- Mods to get libtclcad compiling again.

[brlcad-devel] Last day to submit GSoC application

2011-04-08 Thread Christopher Sean Morrison
This is just a reminder to all listening GSoC students. Today is the last day you can submit an application. See the timeline for the exact deadline but be aware that Google has a zero-tolerance policy on deadlines. If you're even one second late, you're out. There are some great proposals

[brlcad-devel] ohloh stuckage and ignores

2011-05-23 Thread Christopher Sean Morrison
Nice work getting our Ohloh enlistment unstuck. It's been on my mental to-do list for a couple weeks now. Once fixed, I noticed a problem with double-accounting by having rt^3 and geomcore both listed, as the later was started as a branch off of the prior (from svn's point of view), so rt^3

[brlcad-devel] New Book: The Architecture of Open Source Applications

2011-05-23 Thread Christopher Sean Morrison
There's a new (open source / free) book available called The Architecture of Open Source Applications. It gives an overview of about two dozen different open source projects, some large and notable, some small: http://aosabook.org They show how their software is structured, how data and

[brlcad-devel] Welcome GSoC students!

2011-05-23 Thread Christopher Sean Morrison
I just wanted to send a heartfelt welcome and introduction out to Guilherme Kunigami and Brandon Hinesley! They are our two outstanding GSoC applicants that will be joining the dev team to work on LIBOPTICAL and MGED/Archer/LIBGED respectively this summer. Guilherme's stepping up to a

Re: [brlcad-devel] [gsoc] Stuck in a compile error from OSL

2011-05-31 Thread Christopher Sean Morrison
On May 29, 2011, at 3:43 PM, Guilherme Kunigami wrote: Hi, I've successfully compiled and executed a simple ray-tracer using OSL. Though, this renderer was included together with OSL source code and they were compiled together too. Now, I'm trying to compile this renderer outside OSL

Re: [brlcad-devel] [gsoc] Stuck in a compile error from OSL

2011-06-01 Thread Christopher Sean Morrison
On Jun 1, 2011, at 2:33 PM, Guilherme Kunigami wrote: Here is the g++ command I made by hand. g++ testrender.cpp -I/Users/kunigami/dev/osl/dist/macosx/include/OSL/ -I/opt/local/include -I/Users/kunigami/dev/oiio/dist/macosx/include/ -lOpenImageIO

Re: [brlcad-devel] geomcore build failure

2011-06-01 Thread Christopher Sean Morrison
On Jun 1, 2011, at 12:58 PM, Christopher Sean Morrison wrote: May have just found the answer to my own question.. was the geometry engine left in rt^3? I see unit test dirs and some sources in oldstuff, but no core code. Indeed that seems to be the case, got a full build of the GS after

[brlcad-devel] the NEWS file

2011-06-02 Thread Christopher Sean Morrison
I nominate starseeker getting to put together the quarterly feature spreadsheet the next time there's a review ... :D The script that puts the spreadsheet together (sh/news2tracker.sh) looks at the last commit message per *line* .. so they'll all just say Refine the NEWS file items without

Re: [brlcad-devel] Zoom Bug Fixed in 7.20

2011-06-07 Thread Christopher Sean Morrison
Yeah, the release was just posted last week and the news announcements haven't gone out yet. Probably later today. :) On Jun 7, 2011, at 11:54 AM, Tom Browder wrote: On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 10:50, Tom Browder tom.brow...@gmail.com wrote: Bummer, I missed the NEWs on the 7.20 release, but I

Re: [brlcad-devel] [ESA SOCIS] Question about the Celestial mechanics particle system

2011-07-19 Thread Christopher Sean Morrison
On Jul 19, 2011, at 10:31 PM, Abhijit Nandy wrote: I guess the ::itcl::body TireWizard::constructor {...} gets a parameter _archer with which commands can be run in Archer. Specifically these 2 seem to setup the access to Archer : set archer $_archer set archersGed [Archer::pluginGed

Re: [brlcad-devel] [GSoC] Next steps...

2011-07-31 Thread Christopher Sean Morrison
On Jul 31, 2011, at 9:14 PM, Guilherme Kunigami wrote: Indeed. The only thing is that we'll need a buffer to keep partial sums. As far as I udnerstodd, in incremental mode, each pass is independent from the other. Good point, but then if done cleanly, that working buffer will be highly

Re: [brlcad-devel] Release 7.20.2

2011-08-12 Thread Christopher Sean Morrison
The program name g_qa is deprecated as we want to remove the underscore [1]. That also goes for the other g_ tools, all being renamed to be sans underscore. The manual page actually matches the mged command name (and is an n page to reflect that it's for an mged command, even though it also

Re: [brlcad-devel] Bug 3197208 (mged's red command) should be reopened

2011-08-16 Thread Christopher Sean Morrison
On Aug 16, 2011, at 12:54 PM, Tom Browder wrote: I added a comment to the subject bug because I think red ought to either be unavailable or at least get the user to acknowledge the danger before red is actually activated. red is not yet ready for production use and the bug should be

Re: [brlcad-devel] [brlcad-commits] SF.net SVN: brlcad:[46219] brlcad/trunk/src/libbn/plane.c

2011-08-17 Thread Christopher Sean Morrison
Now that's some nice changes. Woot! What breaks if the existing bn function is removed and bn_isect_lseg3_lseg3_new() is renamed to or merged with bn_isect_lseg3_lseg3()? Are there different arguments or different behavior expectations? Understandably a work-in-progress, but I'd think

[brlcad-devel] Source release this weekend

2011-09-09 Thread Christopher Sean Morrison
Preparing to sync and tag 7.20.4 this weekend (we're a little over a week late) so please try to get your commits in and tested (regression and distcheck'd) today if possible. Cheers! Sean -- Why Cloud-Based

Re: [brlcad-devel] [brlcad-users] DocBook problems

2011-09-14 Thread Christopher Sean Morrison
On Sep 13, 2011, at 9:35 AM, Tom Browder wrote: I'm trying to get the DocBook tool chain to work but am having problems. A typical error: /usr/bin/xsltproc -nonet -xinclude -o system/mann/en/wire.fo ../../doc/docbook/resources/standard/xsl/fo/docbook.xsl system/mann/en/wire.xml Making

Re: [brlcad-devel] DocBook Documents

2011-09-14 Thread Christopher Sean Morrison
On Sep 14, 2011, at 11:49 AM, Tom Browder wrote: What do you think about making the pdf versions of the docbook docs (at least the pdf versions) be produced as a separate, binary release package? It can always be part of the source build but I suggest only as an an explicit option (default

Re: [brlcad-devel] Pre-commit Hooks

2011-09-16 Thread Christopher Sean Morrison
On Sep 16, 2011, at 5:43 PM, Tom Browder wrote: Hm, since you already have one pre-commit hook, it seems that to add another is a bit trickier. May I get a copy of the existing one? We actually have four hooks enabled and I may have spoken too soon. Looks like sf.net doesn't support custom

Re: [brlcad-devel] DocBook

2011-09-19 Thread Christopher Sean Morrison
On Sep 19, 2011, at 11:28 AM, Tom Browder wrote: Thanks. Can I put them in the doc/docbook tree if they transform okay? Of course! That's the point, wasn't it? :) BTW, know any Korean BRL-CAD fans who might want to tackle some translations? That's why I really want to move towards clean

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