Re: Ideas on the future of Quesa.

[Jose' C. <cru...@ce...>]

Il giorno 26/nov/04, alle 18:48, Peter Michelsen ha scritto:

> Dear all on the Quesa list,
>
> I thought I would open a discussion on the future of Quesa. This was 
> brought about by the fact that we have finished our current projects 
> and we ( thats Roger Holmes and I ) are looking to the future.
>
> I have started work on an implementation of QuickDraw3D ViewHints in 
> Quesa, which would hopefully mean that I could understand the 
> read/write structure in Quesa.  Then take this understanding on to 
> work on the 3DS support currently present in Quesa but does not 
> currently work for us.

The read-write structure in Quesa is not so complex as it can seem, 
implementing ViewHints could be a job of few days. anyway I'm here

for 3DS support I've a half baked implementation of it using lib3DS,


>
> Firstly we would want to do this in an open source friendly way and 
> give back to Quesa as much as possible. Currently the list has been 
> kinda quiet, so now might be a good time to move to version 1.20, 
> leaving 1.19 as stable and available version on Sourceforge. Then we 
> can check-in changes as we make them as we go and not in one big go at 
> the end. The time scale for this changes would end around March 2005.
>

absolutely, I was thinking about proposing a new release just yesterday


> . The second option is a little more radical but highly desirable in 
> changing E3 routines to C++ format.

that's just using inlines or reworking the internals to make the Quesa 
classes real C++ classes with inheritance and the like?

> So the question, are you happy for us to start discussing these 
> changes on the Quesa list?
> If so I will give a detailed plan of both options next week.

I'm waiting...


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