[Pyode-user] Individual Space classes

[Matthias B. <ba...@ir...>]

Hi,

I'm just in the process of restructuring the Space class. The first step 
was to derive it from GeomObject as ODE considers spaces to be geoms as 
well. This is already in cvs.

As a second step I'd like to split the Space class in its individual 
classes as there are already three of them in ODE: SimpleSpace, 
HashSpace and QuadTreeSpace. However, before doing so I thought I'd 
better ask what you think of it. Are you in favor of this change or do 
you think we should stick to one Space class and pass the type as 
argument (as it is the case right now)?
If we'll have individual classes, what class names would you prefer? 
Should "Space" be the abstract base class or an alias for the 
SimpleSpace class to remain at least a bit of compatibility to the 
previous version? Or should "Space" be a factory function that still 
works like before and returns the appropriate space class..... (hm, this 
just occurred to me while typing the mail and now I'm indeed in favor of 
that solution as it remains fully compatible with the previous version. 
Any objections? :) )

- Matthias -