Re: [brlcad-devel] Boost Library

2013-11-07 Thread Christopher Sean Morrison
On Nov 7, 2013, at 6:29 PM, Tom Browder wrote: > On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 5:06 PM, Christopher Sean Morrison > wrote: >> On Nov 7, 2013, at 8:38 AM, Tom Browder wrote: >> >>> Is it fair to use any Boost code in BRL-CAD C++ code? >> >> We obviously use it now, but our main usage is now obsolete.

Re: [brlcad-devel] Boost Library

2013-11-07 Thread Tom Browder
On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 5:06 PM, Christopher Sean Morrison wrote: > On Nov 7, 2013, at 8:38 AM, Tom Browder wrote: > >> Is it fair to use any Boost code in BRL-CAD C++ code? > > We obviously use it now, but our main usage is now obsolete. ... > Without Spirit, the cost-benefit is limited. I was ac

Re: [brlcad-devel] Boost Library

2013-11-07 Thread Christopher Sean Morrison
On Nov 7, 2013, at 5:42 PM, Tom Browder wrote: > Great, but I tried bcp on my file list and got 36 Mb instead of the > 1.2 Mb that the trunk has at the moment--bummer! That .. doesn't sound right. Or they seriously changed some things. Looking at their Ohloh graph, it looks like they have gon

Re: [brlcad-devel] Boost Library

2013-11-07 Thread Christopher Sean Morrison
On Nov 7, 2013, at 8:38 AM, Tom Browder wrote: > Is it fair to use any Boost code in BRL-CAD C++ code? We obviously use it now, but our main usage is now obsolete. Our LIBPC (parametric constraint) library uses the Spirit parser in Boost, which is why most of src/other/boost is there. That u

Re: [brlcad-devel] Boost Library

2013-11-07 Thread Tom Browder
On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 10:04 AM, Clifford Yapp wrote: > On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 10:54 AM, Tom Browder wrote: >> On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 7:38 AM, Tom Browder wrote: >>> Is it fair to use any Boost code in BRL-CAD C++ code? If so, I think ... > None at all, that's a good thing - just make libpc and

Re: [brlcad-devel] Bug spotted in g-step

2013-11-07 Thread Clifford Yapp
On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 2:58 PM, Rob McDonald wrote: > All, > > Thanks for your work on BRL-CAD and STEPcode. I've been studying some of > BRL-CAD's step export capability to learn to use STEPcode to do the same. Excellent! > In that studying, I found a subtle bug that probably won't bite anybo

Re: [brlcad-devel] libpng detection and CMake 2.8.12

2013-11-07 Thread Clifford Yapp
On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 9:57 AM, Tom Browder wrote: > On Sun, Nov 3, 2013 at 7:48 AM, Raphael Kubo da Costa > wrote: >> Hi everyone, >> >> While packaging CMake 2.8.12 on FreeBSD, I noticed that BRL-CAD was >> failing to build right at the configuration stage: > ... > > Raphael, thanks for the rep

Re: [brlcad-devel] Boost Library

2013-11-07 Thread Clifford Yapp
On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 10:54 AM, Tom Browder wrote: > On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 7:38 AM, Tom Browder wrote: >> Is it fair to use any Boost code in BRL-CAD C++ code? If so, I think > ... > > I take back my all my last statements as I realize the magnitude of > the entire Boost library Heh. I was a

Re: [brlcad-devel] Boost Library

2013-11-07 Thread Tom Browder
On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 7:38 AM, Tom Browder wrote: > Is it fair to use any Boost code in BRL-CAD C++ code? If so, I think ... I take back my all my last statements as I realize the magnitude of the entire Boost library (except it would be convenient to refer to the BRL-CAD Boost include director

Re: [brlcad-devel] doc sprint summary

2013-11-07 Thread Christopher Sean Morrison
On Nov 7, 2013, at 2:35 AM, Daniel Roßberg wrote: > There is a style guide mentioned. Is it the HACKING in a new format > or a more detailed one? During the writing of the book, several questions came up like whether to use a serial comma, ray tracing vs raytracing, and other technical writing

Re: [brlcad-devel] libpng detection and CMake 2.8.12

2013-11-07 Thread Tom Browder
On Sun, Nov 3, 2013 at 7:48 AM, Raphael Kubo da Costa wrote: > Hi everyone, > > While packaging CMake 2.8.12 on FreeBSD, I noticed that BRL-CAD was > failing to build right at the configuration stage: ... Raphael, thanks for the report. I'm sure our cmake expert will deal with that problem soon,

[brlcad-devel] Boost Library

2013-11-07 Thread Tom Browder
Is it fair to use any Boost code in BRL-CAD C++ code? If so, I think the cmake files need to reflect that (i.e., point to the entire BRL-CAD Boost if not found on the local host). As it is now it seems to be there for the convenience of a small set of files and much local boost cmake testing. I