Re: [simspark-devel] PAL_draft

[Ben <lgp...@16...>]

Hi,
>What is the current status of the conversion?
It's just a try and I think 'PAL' itself is not mature, some interfaces are missing, for example, 'dJointFeedBack',(maybe lost for *general*) and strange properties of a certain physical engine.

>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..
Yes, that's really tedious.

>Further we should put it into a new CVS branch to make it easier to 
>follow development.
I think so ;-)

>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.
I'd ever try the 'plugin' way, but some classes should be abstracted by
ourselves, which has been done in 'PAL'. Maybe it's a coincide, I'm not
sure.

Regards
Ben