Dear all, One of our main goals for the next versions of Gmsh is the release of a stable Application Programming Interface (API), allowing users/developers to easily embed Gmsh (as a library) in their own codes. The design goals for this API are the following: the API should
- allow to do everything that can be done in .geo files (and then more) - be robust, in particular to wrong input data (i.e. "never crash") - allow to do simple things, simply - be maintainable over the long run To achieve these goals the API - is purely functional - only uses basic types from the target language (C++, C or Python) - is automatically generated from a master API description file - is fully documented An initial version of the API has landed in the Git repository, and we would like to get your early feedback. It is defined in the https://gitlab.onelab.info/gmsh/gmsh/blob/master/api directory: - C++ header: https://gitlab.onelab.info/gmsh/gmsh/blob/master/api/gmsh.h - C header: https://gitlab.onelab.info/gmsh/gmsh/blob/master/api/gmshc.h - Python module: https://gitlab.onelab.info/gmsh/gmsh/blob/master/api/gmsh.py Several examples on how to use the C++ and Python API are available in the https://gitlab.onelab.info/gmsh/gmsh/blob/master/demos/api directory. In particular, this directory contains C++ and Python versions of several of the .geo tutorials from https://gitlab.onelab.info/gmsh/gmsh/blob/master/tutorial. We plan to release a first (beta) version of the API in Gmsh 3.1, and a first stable version in Gmsh 4.0. You can send your feedback directly to the mailing list, or comment in the issue tracker https://gitlab.onelab.info/gmsh/gmsh/issues/188. Thanks, Christophe -- Prof. Christophe Geuzaine University of Liege, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science http://www.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~geuzaine Free software: http://gmsh.info | http://getdp.info | http://onelab.info _______________________________________________ gmsh-announce mailing list gmsh-announce@onelab.info http://onelab.info/mailman/listinfo/gmsh-announce
