[gts-devel] Next GTS Release

[Tom B. <to...@fw...>]

Stephane, I'm looking forward to the next release, any tentative
date?

I respectfully re-express my wishes for a change to the
gts_surface_read (and write) format.  I still do not understand why
the edges need to be explicitly written since, in the external format,
they are implicitly there with a format listing vertices and triangles.

Why not let the computer do the work on converting into edges
upon read?  Every bit of excess info in an external file makes
it harder to hand code for testing as well as more difficult to
write model translators (not to speak of larger-than-necessary
model files).

And I know I can make my own mods to the GTS library, but I think
there is a strong case for the simpler standard file format in the library.
Remember, it is an external representation of the GTS model
and it should have no more than the minumum required
information to properly define it.

Thanks for listening to my rant.

Tom Browder

P.S.  Since you have gone to great lengths to make GTS more
object oriented, why not go whole hog and convert to C++?
I think the code would be much more understandable than the
system you have now.