Re: [simspark-devel] PAL_draft

[Markus R. <rol...@un...>]

Hi all,

Ben wrote:
> A draft hacking version of 'PAL' is uploaded here[1]. Please have a
> look if you'd like to, I think we can make some dissusions about it
> ;-P

thanks for your effort Ben, this start's out looking good! ;)
What is the current status of the conversion?

It seems that a significant part of the utility functions are still
missing, like most of the mass calculation function in body.cpp etc.
That's to be expected, as it's tedious work..

So to get to a working point fast and to make it easily testable and
hackable for a larger group of people I'd suggest adding the missing
functions as stubs, that just print out 'function blabla not implemented
yet!' in order to get it to compile. In this way you can see in the logs 
what's still missing when testing the system.

Further we should put it into a new CVS branch to make it easier to 
follow development.

An alternative might be to first refactor the existing
physics systems as a plugin first, move it into plugins/ and create the
the new PAL pyhsics system there as an alternative you can switch to. In 
this way the PAL pyhsics can stay in CVS head.

cheers,
Markus