Re: [brlcad-devel] bugs database

2022-01-12 Thread Tom Browder
On Wed, Jan 12, 2022 at 15:27 Christopher Sean Morrison via brlcad-devel < brlcad-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: ... As Cliff said, the repo has essentially everything and has been migrated to > git. It is by known accounts the world’s oldest continuously developed > repo with a commit histo

Re: [brlcad-devel] GSoC: Creation of NURBS

2021-01-19 Thread Tom Browder
On Tue, Jan 19, 2021 at 14:11 Rob McDonald wrote: > AngelScript's API is C++, so it makes embedding it into C++ programs (and > exposing those data structures) a bit easier than Lua's C API. > Sean, I still think Raku (hhtps://raku.org) with its NativeCall interface to C/C++ is a natural fit for

[brlcad-devel] Pardon my interruption

2019-02-21 Thread Tom Browder
Hi, Sean! I'm still secretly working on Perl 6 and BRL-CAD synergism, and I tried to introduce my Perl 6 buddy, Dr. Juan (aka JJ) Merelo, to you at your Mac email address. Let me know if that's out of line. Kind regards, -Tom ___ BRL-CAD Developer mai

Re: [brlcad-devel] BRL-CAD VM

2017-01-30 Thread Tom Browder
On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 2:35 PM, Tom Browder wrote: > On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 10:42 (Asad) Syed, Asadullah Hussain > wrote: >> >> Hi Tom, I don't know much about your VM creation process but I was planning >> on developing a Packer file (https://www.packer.io )inst

Re: [brlcad-devel] BRL-CAD VM

2017-01-30 Thread Tom Browder
On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 10:42 (Asad) Syed, Asadullah Hussain wrote: > > Hi Tom, I don't know much about your VM creation process but I was planning > on developing a Packer file (https://www.packer.io )instead of/in addition to > the VM image. Asad, that sounds like a good plan, but I'm not sure

[brlcad-devel] BRL-CAD VM

2017-01-29 Thread Tom Browder
Hi, Sean and gang, long time no contact--and Happy New Year! I plan to update the VM and use Debian 8. I also plan to use the same text, directories, and files that I used with the old Deb 7 VM (with updated BRL-CAD and friends, of course). While I start to work on the new VM I would appreciate

[brlcad-devel] Interesting ACM News Report on Collecting and Analyzing 3D Data

2016-07-08 Thread Tom Browder
See ACM news article: http://news.stanford.edu/2016/06/29/stanford-researchers-automate-process-acquiring-detailed-building-information/ Cheers! -Tom -- Attend Shape: An AT&T Tech Expo July 15-16. Meet us at AT&T Par

[brlcad-devel] Static code checker research worth investigating (Communications of the ACM, 03/2016, Vol. 59, No. 03, p. 99)

2016-03-05 Thread Tom Browder
Interesting article in latest issue of subject titled: "A Differential Approach to Undefined Behavior Detection" which may describe procedures not used in other static analysis programs. Article references the authors' website here: http://css.csail.mit.edu/stack which contains more info l

Re: [brlcad-devel] Spring Cleaning!

2016-02-10 Thread Tom Browder
On Tue, Feb 9, 2016 at 9:32 PM, Christopher Sean Morrison wrote: > > Hello everyone! > > Unprecedented in BRL-CAD’s history, we’re looking to eliminate features, > tools, and data from the package that are infrequently used. The reasons for > this should be pretty obvious. Towards that end, we

Re: [brlcad-devel] new to FOSS, Need guidance

2015-12-30 Thread Tom Browder
On Fri, Dec 25, 2015 at 1:48 PM, Love Mehta wrote: > Hello eveyone, Hello, Love! Welcome to the BRL-CAD community. > I am new in the open source software community and wish to contribute in > free software. I have found out about the BRL-CAD community from the Google > Summer of Code website. I

[brlcad-devel] Postscript utilities for creating PS docs of BRL-CAD images with overlays

2015-12-29 Thread Tom Browder
Sean, I mentioned that I have a solution that would be very useful for starting an image overlay tool kit for BRL-CAD, but it was a ManTech product. I don't remember if I mentioned that the tools were sold some years ago to the DoD (JTCG/ME) as part of an unclassified project for post-processing A

Re: [brlcad-devel] Binary attributes: help needed with CMake set up

2015-11-30 Thread Tom Browder
On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 9:08 PM, Clifford Yapp wrote: > On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 7:00 PM, Tom Browder wrote: >> >> Could we add some kind of notice, at least temporarily while under >> development? > > r7 should wo

[brlcad-devel] Binary attributes: more thoughts

2015-11-26 Thread Tom Browder
1. What are some of the BRL-CAD uses for binary attributes (BAs)? Here are the few I can think of (with questions or comments): + automatic create time and mod time for objects - Should there be a database (DB) switch to turn on or off (controlled by a _GLOBAL attribute)? If so, what should

Re: [brlcad-devel] Binary attributes: help needed with CMake set up

2015-11-23 Thread Tom Browder
On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 11:19 AM, Clifford Yapp wrote: > On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 8:54 AM, Tom Browder wrote: >> ... > Does r1 fix it? (You won't see it listed in the summary Could we add some kind of notice, at least temporarily while under development? Checking the buil

Re: [brlcad-devel] Binary attributes: help needed with CMake set up

2015-11-23 Thread Tom Browder
On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 12:35 PM, Christopher Sean Morrison wrote: > On Nov 23, 2015, at 1:08 PM, Tom Browder wrote: ... >> I'm not sure what to do about their xml docs yet--we may be able to >> incorporate them--I'll look into that later. > > I suggest igno

Re: [brlcad-devel] Binary attributes: help needed with CMake set up

2015-11-23 Thread Tom Browder
On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 11:21 AM, Clifford Yapp wrote: > On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 11:48 AM, Tom Browder wrote: > >> Actually, there is just one BSON binary test file that is 17 Mb >> (stackoverflow.bson)! > > Do we need their tests? I left them in in case you needed t

Re: [brlcad-devel] Binary attributes: help needed with CMake set up

2015-11-23 Thread Tom Browder
On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 6:38 AM, Tom Browder wrote: ... > Cliff, thanks for your help! Frankly, I think I should have started > work with BSON before jumping in to include it in our code base (and I > should have checked the size, too, but I think most of that is from > binar

Re: [brlcad-devel] RCS Tags in BRL-CAD source files: remove them?

2015-11-23 Thread Tom Browder
On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 7:50 AM, Tom Browder wrote: > On Sun, Nov 22, 2015 at 10:51 PM, Clifford Yapp wrote: >> On Sun, Nov 22, 2015 at 12:43 PM, Tom Browder wrote: >>> I notice we have several BEL-CAD source files that have RCS tags in >>> them. Are they needed f

Re: [brlcad-devel] Binary attributes: help needed with CMake set up

2015-11-23 Thread Tom Browder
On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 7:10 AM, Tom Browder wrote: > On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 6:50 AM, Tom Browder wrote: >> On Sun, Nov 22, 2015 at 10:50 PM, Clifford Yapp wrote: ... >>> Give r66656 a try. > > Got a clean configure, but no indication libbson will be used: ... >

Re: [brlcad-devel] RCS Tags in BRL-CAD source files: remove them?

2015-11-23 Thread Tom Browder
On Sun, Nov 22, 2015 at 10:51 PM, Clifford Yapp wrote: > On Sun, Nov 22, 2015 at 12:43 PM, Tom Browder wrote: >> I notice we have several BEL-CAD source files that have RCS tags in >> them. Are they needed for some special purpose, or can they be >> removed? > > As

Re: [brlcad-devel] RCS Tags in BRL-CAD source files: remove them?

2015-11-23 Thread Tom Browder
On Nov 22, 2015 10:51 PM, "Clifford Yapp" wrote: > On Sun, Nov 22, 2015 at 12:43 PM, Tom Browder wrote: > > I notice we have several BEL-CAD source files that have RCS tags in > > them. Are they needed for some special purpose, or can they be > > removed? &g

Re: [brlcad-devel] Binary attributes: help needed with CMake set up

2015-11-23 Thread Tom Browder
On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 6:50 AM, Tom Browder wrote: > On Sun, Nov 22, 2015 at 10:50 PM, Clifford Yapp wrote: >> Tom, >> >> Give r66656 a try. Got a clean configure, but no indication libbson will be used: Compile Tcl ..

Re: [brlcad-devel] Binary attributes: help needed with CMake set up

2015-11-23 Thread Tom Browder
On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 6:56 AM, Tom Browder wrote: >> Give r66656 a try. > > I forgot to ask about the top-level "INSTALL" and "configure" files. ... > auto-generated). I got a conflict on update and marked it resolved > but the update deleted them! I

Re: [brlcad-devel] Binary attributes: help needed with CMake set up

2015-11-23 Thread Tom Browder
On Sun, Nov 22, 2015 at 10:50 PM, Clifford Yapp wrote: > Tom, > > Give r66656 a try. I forgot to ask about the top-level "INSTALL" and "configure" files. I remember having trouble with them in the past as far as whether they are supposed to be versioned or not (I think they are both auto-generate

Re: [brlcad-devel] Binary attributes: help needed with CMake set up

2015-11-23 Thread Tom Browder
On Sun, Nov 22, 2015 at 10:50 PM, Clifford Yapp wrote: > Tom, > > Give r66656 a try. Got it--thanks a heap! > By the way, have you had a chance to look at the new bu_opt API? I'm > curious what you think of it. I've been watching it a bit, but have no real opinion yet. Is it amenable to any a

Re: [brlcad-devel] Binary attributes: help needed with CMake set up

2015-11-23 Thread Tom Browder
On Sun, Nov 22, 2015 at 10:01 PM, Clifford Yapp wrote: > OK, a little more info - apparently -lrt is needed for clock_gettime > on linux, but only for glibc prior to 2.17 (came out in Dec. 2012, so > the removal of the need is quite recent.) > > Based on the code, it looks like it will fall back t

[brlcad-devel] Binary attributes: help needed with CMake set up

2015-11-22 Thread Tom Browder
If CMake Master Cliff has to time to get the libbson build working in branch 'binary-attributes', src/other/libbson, I will be eternally grateful and will award a couple of beers or other beverage of choice the next time I see him! Cheers, and down the hatch! -Tom ---

[brlcad-devel] RCS Tags in BRL-CAD source files: remove them?

2015-11-22 Thread Tom Browder
I notice we have several BEL-CAD source files that have RCS tags in them. Are they needed for some special purpose, or can they be removed? -Tom -- ___ BRL-CAD Developer mailin

Re: [brlcad-devel] Choice of binary format for binary attributes?

2015-11-22 Thread Tom Browder
On Nov 21, 2015 2:50 PM, "Tom Browder" wrote: ... > Can we choose (at least initially) a binary format to get started > with? From my brief look at the three: ... > BSON > - > > + Apache 2 license > + C implementation available (uses CMake, has extensi

Re: [brlcad-devel] Choice of binary format for binary attributes?

2015-11-21 Thread Tom Browder
Hm, has anyone considered Google's Protocol Buffers? Not sure if it's suitable, but I sure like schemas. Best, -Tom -- ___ BRL-CAD Developer mailing list brlcad-devel@lists.sour

[brlcad-devel] Choice of binary format for binary attributes?

2015-11-21 Thread Tom Browder
In the TODO file is stated: * implement support for binary attributes. the general idea is to allow collections of (at a minimum) 64-bit integer, 64-bit floating point, and strings. the type needs to be encoded when written out to storage. there is high-desirability towards using a binary

Re: [brlcad-devel] Tests are different: make test; make check (rev 66618)

2015-11-20 Thread Tom Browder
On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 6:37 AM, Clifford Yapp wrote: > On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 5:05 PM, Tom Browder wrote: >> When scanning the top-level CMakeLists.tx file (rev 66618), I saw an >> entry to add the GNU standard "make check" target, so I gave it a try. >> I a

[brlcad-devel] Tests are different: make test; make check (rev 66618)

2015-11-19 Thread Tom Browder
When scanning the top-level CMakeLists.tx file (rev 66618), I saw an entry to add the GNU standard "make check" target, so I gave it a try. I assumed it would be an alias for "make test" but the tests run were not the same--a bit confusing! make test: 758 tests (2 failed) make check: 738 test

[brlcad-devel] TODO file: Attributes

2015-11-19 Thread Tom Browder
In the ATTRIBUTES section in the TODO file, there is this entry at the end of the section: * binary attributes, see binary-incompatible section for details. Where is that referenced section to be found? Thanks. -Tom

[brlcad-devel] Binary Attributes (was "Re: [brlcad-users] Casting RT Structs")

2015-11-19 Thread Tom Browder
On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 2:01 PM, Christopher Sean Morrison wrote: > > On Aug 30, 2015, at 8:37 AM, Tom Browder wrote: > >> Sean, I hope to get to that before too long, but I'm hard pressed at >> the moment with prepping for my reunion. I don't remember having any &

Re: [brlcad-devel] .bz server authentication problem

2015-08-14 Thread Tom Browder
On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 4:13 PM, Check Nyah wrote: > Hello, > > I also have a similar issue on my Fedora 22. I've tried logging on to the > bzflag server. to no avail. I even tried on a MacBook today and still did > not go. It seems like the server is trying to authenticate with a public. > when t

Re: [brlcad-devel] .bz server authentication problem

2015-08-14 Thread Tom Browder
On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 12:37 PM, Deepak Sharma wrote: > On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 7:05 PM, Tom Browder wrote: >> >> Deepak, I've come late to this thread and your project: ... >> 2. How did you get your credentials on the virtual server? > > My mentor Sean and

Re: [brlcad-devel] .bz server authentication problem

2015-08-14 Thread Tom Browder
On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 7:41 AM, Deepak Sharma wrote: > On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 5:40 PM, Tom Browder wrote: >> Have you tried rsync? > > Yes, I tried and got this result : ... Deepak, I've come late to this thread and your project: 1. Where is your virtual server physica

Re: [brlcad-devel] .bz server authentication problem

2015-08-14 Thread Tom Browder
On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 6:37 AM, Deepak Sharma wrote: > I am trying to upload .vdi file to our .bz server but facing little > trouble in that. It gets uploaded upto 700-800 Mb and after that it > stops. Now, whenever I try scp or ssh it give me the following error Have you tried rsync? -Tom ---

[brlcad-devel] Graphics News: Method for Efficient Computation for Sub-surface Scattering of Light

2015-05-06 Thread Tom Browder
Sean probably already knows about this (announced in today's ACM News): http://www.tuwien.ac.at/en/news/news_detail/article/9461/ The article says "Activision-Blizzard is already using this method. The team is confident that the -method will soon be used in many other applications too. The

Re: [brlcad-devel] BRL-CAD Web Site

2015-02-27 Thread Tom Browder
e from the front page. >> >> Regards, >> >> On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 1:10 PM, Tom Browder wrote: >>> >>> The front page of the web site (brlcad.org) highlights news from 2013. >>> >>> Warmest regards. >>> >>> -Tom >

[brlcad-devel] BRL-CAD Web Site

2015-02-27 Thread Tom Browder
The front page of the web site (brlcad.org) highlights news from 2013. Warmest regards. -Tom -- Dive into the World of Parallel Programming The Go Parallel Website, sponsored by Intel and developed in partnership with Sla

[brlcad-devel] Subversion vs. Fossil

2014-12-01 Thread Tom Browder
I just stumbled upon fossil again after a span of several years: http://fossil-scm.org Has anyone had experience with it? It looks like a great merge of characteristics of both distributed and centralized SCSs. Best regards, -Tom -

Re: [brlcad-devel] Reading .g binary file

2014-10-31 Thread Tom Browder
On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 1:31 AM, Christopher Sean Morrison wrote: > On Oct 30, 2014, at 9:34 AM, Tom Browder wrote: > >>> From sourceforge, check out the "attr-extension-mods" branch, build >> it, and try the "admin-db" program. Comments welcome. > &

Re: [brlcad-devel] Reading .g binary file

2014-10-30 Thread Tom Browder
On Sun, Oct 19, 2014 at 12:44 PM, Gurwinder Singh Bains wrote: > BRL-CAD stores database into binary format. I am trying to store it in > text format. I have read that in binary .g file information is stored > as Header, Title of database, Units, Objects, Matter, Combination etc. > and in last Foo

[brlcad-devel] Coverity News: LibreOffice Report

2014-09-22 Thread Tom Browder
I just received of the Coverity Report on LibreOffice: http://wpcme.coverity.com/wp-content/uploads/2014-Coverity-Scan-Spotlight-LibreOffice.pdf At a quick glance I saw a couple of items that caught my eye: 1. I found this tidbit interesting, mainly because I wasn't aware of how Clang plugin

[brlcad-devel] Version 4.1.2 is in the camel repo--clear to pull

2014-09-18 Thread Tom Browder
Bon voyage! -Tom -- Slashdot TV. Video for Nerds. Stuff that Matters. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=160591471&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk ___ BRL-CAD Developer mailin

Re: [brlcad-devel] Ray tracing and multiple cpus

2014-09-16 Thread Tom Browder
On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 10:48 AM, Tom Browder wrote: ... > The tgm is unknown to me I heard later that one of the problem targets is the BRL-CAD m35.g, so I have something to work with. I plan to check one of the stock converters against ours and see if that gives a clue. I will choose g-v

Re: [brlcad-devel] Ray tracing and multiple cpus

2014-09-15 Thread Tom Browder
On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 10:21 AM, Christopher Sean Morrison wrote: >> I have looked at the functions I explicitly use and see there is a >> func arg for the number of cpus and I have them set to 1. However, my >> coworker is processing a large tgm and has trouble killing the using >> program and

[brlcad-devel] Ray tracing and multiple cpus

2014-09-15 Thread Tom Browder
I have a program that uses librt for ray tracing and I would like to have the option to use just one cpu. (I'm currently using version 7.24.2.) I have looked at the functions I explicitly use and see there is a func arg for the number of cpus and I have them set to 1. However, my coworker is pro

Re: [brlcad-devel] SWAMP

2014-08-01 Thread Tom Browder
On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 10:16 PM, Christopher Sean Morrison wrote: > > Just FYI, I have BRL-CAD set up with the new SWAMP service. It's actually I just joined (astbrowder2) but I don't see BRL-CAD as a package. FYI, the SWAMP home/joining page is at: https://www.mir-swamp.org/ Cheers! -Tom

Re: [brlcad-devel] [brlcad-commits] SF.net SVN: brlcad:[61226] brlcad/branches/bullet/src

2014-06-10 Thread Tom Browder
On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 12:24 PM, wrote: > Revision: 61226 > http://sourceforge.net/p/brlcad/code/61226 > Author: starseeker > Date: 2014-06-10 17:24:32 + (Tue, 10 Jun 2014) > Log Message: > --- > Get the simulate command compiling with the bundled Bullet. It doesn't

Re: [brlcad-devel] Should we package three.js for meteor ?

2014-05-27 Thread Tom Browder
On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 6:39 AM, Tom Browder wrote: ... > Thanks, Harmanpreep, that works (however, the warnings on that page are > scary)! Sorry for the typo, Harmanpreet. Best regards, -Tom -- The best po

Re: [brlcad-devel] Should we package three.js for meteor ?

2014-05-27 Thread Tom Browder
On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 12:54 AM, Harmanpreet Singh wrote: > On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 1:15 AM, Tom Browder wrote: >> On Sun, May 25, 2014 at 2:23 PM, Mihai Neacsu >> wrote: >>> Tom, type this in your Chrome URL box: ... >> Thanks, Mihai! It looks like not all i

Re: [brlcad-devel] Should we package three.js for meteor ?

2014-05-25 Thread Tom Browder
On Sun, May 25, 2014 at 2:23 PM, Mihai Neacsu wrote: > Tom, type this in your Chrome URL box: > > chrome://gpu/ Thanks, Mihai! It looks like not all is working on the Linux version yet. However, I can see the site with Iceweasel (rebranded Firefox). Best, -Tom ---

Re: [brlcad-devel] Should we package three.js for meteor ?

2014-05-25 Thread Tom Browder
On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 8:53 AM, Daniel Roßberg wrote: > 2014-05-18 12:53 GMT+02:00 Tom Browder : >>> On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 6:33 PM, Inderpreet Singh >>> wrote: >> ... >>>> You can see that live here http://meteor3jstest.meteor.com/ >> >> I

Re: [brlcad-devel] Should we package three.js for meteor ?

2014-05-18 Thread Tom Browder
On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 1:42 AM, H.S.Rai wrote: > On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 6:33 PM, Inderpreet Singh wrote: ... >> You can see that live here http://meteor3jstest.meteor.com/ I, on my Debian box, see nothing with Chromium. Any ideas? Best. -Tom

Re: [brlcad-devel] D vs. C++

2014-05-14 Thread Tom Browder
On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 8:30 PM, Christopher Sean Morrison wrote: ... > We have acquired too many incomplete projects on trunk > -- that's why most new efforts (e.g., OpenCL) are now being > started on a branch where they arguably should > have been in the first place. Okay, I have committed a "

Re: [brlcad-devel] Debian package: naming advice sought

2014-05-14 Thread Tom Browder
On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 9:54 AM, Jordi Sayol wrote: On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 10:10 AM, Christopher Sean Morrison wrote: > On Jul 25, 2013, at 09:01 AM, Tom Browder wrote: I considering both Jordi's and Sean's suggestions, how about this: brlcad <= libs, bin, ma

Re: [brlcad-devel] D vs. C++

2014-05-13 Thread Tom Browder
On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 11:31 AM, Tom Browder wrote: > On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 11:09 AM, Christopher Sean Morrison >> I'm leery of features getting implemented without a >> specific known use case (i.e., "if you build it, they will come"), but The use case is a s

Re: [brlcad-devel] D vs. C++

2014-05-13 Thread Tom Browder
On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 11:09 AM, Christopher Sean Morrison wrote: > On May 13, 2014, at 10:08 AM, Tom Browder wrote: >> What about starting with a defined D interface to the libraries? That >> way D programmers would have access, and the stability of the public C >> API s

Re: [brlcad-devel] D vs. C++

2014-05-13 Thread Tom Browder
On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 8:51 AM, Christopher Sean Morrison wrote: ... >>> Crazy idea: C++ has been creeping into the source (good) but what >>> about changing that creeping into the D language? ... > I'm actually a big fan of some of the newer languages including D, Go, and > Rust. > Alas, conve

Re: [brlcad-devel] D vs. C++

2014-05-13 Thread Tom Browder
On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 7:30 AM, Tom Browder wrote: > On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 6:51 AM, Jordi Sayol wrote: >> El 13/05/14 12:59, Tom Browder ha escrit: > ... >>> With the implication of eventually converting ALL BRL-CAD compilation >>> source into D, of course. (If

Re: [brlcad-devel] D vs. C++

2014-05-13 Thread Tom Browder
On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 6:51 AM, Jordi Sayol wrote: > El 13/05/14 12:59, Tom Browder ha escrit: ... >> With the implication of eventually converting ALL BRL-CAD compilation >> source into D, of course. (If Facebook can do it, why can't we?) ... > IMHO This is an excellent

Re: [brlcad-devel] D vs. C++

2014-05-13 Thread Tom Browder
On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 5:52 AM, Tom Browder wrote: > Crazy idea: C++ has been creeping into the source (good) but what > about changing that creeping into the D language? With the implication of eventually converting ALL BRL-CAD compilation source into D, of course. (If Facebook can

[brlcad-devel] D vs. C++

2014-05-13 Thread Tom Browder
Crazy idea: C++ has been creeping into the source (good) but what about changing that creeping into the D language? Cheers! -Tom -- "Accelerate Dev Cycles with Automated Cross-Browser Testing - For FREE Instantly run yo

Re: [brlcad-devel] Sean's Comment on Rev 60262 Commit for: src/liboptical/turb.c

2014-05-12 Thread Tom Browder
On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 6:07 PM, Christopher Sean Morrison wrote: ... >> It looks to me if there is a line of four values missing. I believe ... > Quite a find in the middle of that big table! Ah, thanks to the power Perl! >> Would such an almost-the-same sequence be acceptable? ... > Given it'

[brlcad-devel] Sean's Comment on Rev 60262 Commit for: src/liboptical/turb.c

2014-05-12 Thread Tom Browder
In that revision Sean's log message said: Log Message: --- it'd be nice to have a bigger table or know the generator+seed that produced it And the added comment in the file says: +/* TODO: it'd be useful to figure out which random number generator + * created this table so we could creat

Re: [brlcad-devel] new compile-time versioning API

2014-05-05 Thread Tom Browder
On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 12:31 AM, Christopher Sean Morrison wrote: > Tom et al., > > I just committed a pretty substantial reworking of our API to not only > support run-time versioning but also compile-time. ... > Let me know if this is a workable solution for your use case. It works fine for me,

Re: [brlcad-devel] Fwd: format conversion from .g files to GDML file format

2014-05-04 Thread Tom Browder
On Sun, May 4, 2014 at 4:52 AM, Richard Gillham Darnley wrote: > Hi, > > Thank you for your support! I have reviewed your suggestions and I am still > looking into either using a third-party xml parser such as libxml2 or > rolling my own GDML-dedicated xml parser. I would like to keep any > thir

[brlcad-devel] Ref: Sean's Log Message for Rev 60262 (./src/liboptical/turb.c)

2014-04-06 Thread Tom Browder
Quote: it'd be nice to have a bigger table or know the generator+seed that produced it Since I'm not helping with GSoC I thought I would take a stab at that challenge and wrote a Perl prog to look at the set of numbers. The first thing I discovered is that there should be 8,000 numbers in the 3D

Re: [brlcad-devel] Bug in "sh/make_dep.sh" or "misc/debian"?

2014-03-31 Thread Tom Browder
On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 12:36 PM, Nicholas Reed wrote: > If you're asking about the "Unknown media type" messages, > they appear to be harmless ... Thanks, Nick--that fixed it! Best regards, -Tom -- ___

[brlcad-devel] Bug in "sh/make_dep.sh" or "misc/debian"?

2014-03-31 Thread Tom Browder
When removing and installed local-built BRL-CAD Debian package, I get the following: $ sudo aptitude remove brlcad [sudo] password for tbrowde: The following packages will be REMOVED: brlcad 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0 B of archives. Aft

[brlcad-devel] Next BRL-CAD Release

2014-03-25 Thread Tom Browder
I will be glad to help with the next release if I can (selfish interest). Best regards, -Tom -- Learn Graph Databases - Download FREE O'Reilly Book "Graph Databases" is the definitive new guide to graph databases and the

Re: [brlcad-devel] BRL-CAd project aspirant for GSOC 2014

2014-03-08 Thread Tom Browder
On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 4:33 PM, Siddhartha Narang wrote: > Hello , > I am Siddhartha Narang a second year Undergraduate in INFORMATION Hi, Siddhartha, and welcome to the BRL-CAD group. > I have a deep knowledge of C and C++ > I have a average knowledge of Data Structures ,linux, Html5. > I am c

Re: [brlcad-devel] Python Bindings.

2014-03-03 Thread Tom Browder
On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 2:21 PM, Csaba Nagy wrote: > Tom, I see you added SWIG as option for adding perl bindings too - in > this light it would be perhaps indeed a better idea to use SWIG for all Actually, I probably have muddied the waters--maybe there are multiple projects here. for the SWIG I

Re: [brlcad-devel] Python Bindings.

2014-03-03 Thread Tom Browder
On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 11:32 PM, K RAJ KOUSHIK REDDY wrote: > Hi Casba and Sean, Jumping in here late for a question with no info on this project: any use of or thought of using SWIG? -Tom -- Subversion Kills Producti

Re: [brlcad-devel] Possible GSoC Project

2014-03-02 Thread Tom Browder
On Sun, Mar 2, 2014 at 3:15 AM, Daniel Roßberg wrote: > Tom, > > It looks like you hadn't a look at the BRL-CAD core C++ interface in rt^3. Sorry, Daniel, you're correct. I haven't looked at it in a long time. I apologize. > BTW, do you know the BRL-CAD viewer for Windows? No, I don't > It w

[brlcad-devel] Possible GSoC Project

2014-03-01 Thread Tom Browder
I wonder if this might be a suitable GSoC project: + provide a simple, C++ interface to a limited set of BRL-CAD functions for ray tracing, e.g., as typically used in vulnerability analysis I know we have rt^3, but that's a giant project in itself, although I guess work on that would be more effi

Re: [brlcad-devel] Updated VM

2014-02-28 Thread Tom Browder
On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 5:06 PM, Tom Browder wrote: > I just deleted the two VM-associated files and have started transfer > of the updated ~1.87 Gb VM. Transfer rate at the moment is approx. 90 > kB/s with an estimated transfer time of approx. 6 hours. Upload is good. Mission acc

[brlcad-devel] Updated VM

2014-02-28 Thread Tom Browder
I just deleted the two VM-associated files and have started transfer of the updated ~1.87 Gb VM. Transfer rate at the moment is approx. 90 kB/s with an estimated transfer time of approx. 6 hours. I'll put up the new README.txt after a good VM transfer. Best, -Tom --

Re: [brlcad-devel] GSoC is a Go!

2014-02-28 Thread Tom Browder
On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 9:45 PM, Christopher Sean Morrison wrote: > > On Feb 27, 2014, at 9:09 PM, Tom Browder wrote: > >> On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 9:00 PM, Christopher Sean Morrison >> wrote: >>> >>> On Feb 27, 2014, at 8:54 PM, Tom Browder wrote: >

Re: [brlcad-devel] GSoC is a Go!

2014-02-27 Thread Tom Browder
On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 9:00 PM, Christopher Sean Morrison wrote: > > On Feb 27, 2014, at 8:54 PM, Tom Browder wrote: > >> I'm working on it. With luck, updated VM and text will be on the site >> by tomorrow PM (CDT). >> Compiling now (3.5 hrs to go based on las

Re: [brlcad-devel] GSoC is a Go!

2014-02-27 Thread Tom Browder
On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 1:56 AM, Christopher Sean Morrison wrote: > > In case anyone hasn't been paying attention, BRL-CAD was accepted to > participate in the 2014 Google Summer of Code! ... > That means we have a lot of work that needs to be done quickly now. > The project ideas page and virtua

Re: [brlcad-devel] [brlcad-commits] SF.net SVN: brlcad:[59842] brlcad/trunk/src/libbu/tests

2014-02-12 Thread Tom Browder
On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 6:37 AM, Tom Browder wrote: > On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 2:24 AM, Christopher Sean Morrison > wrote: >> Tom, >> >> On a related note, I get a failure on test 66 even after the revert back to >> %d, >> so you seem to have exposed another

Re: [brlcad-devel] O'Reilly OSCON 2014, Speaker Application Due Tomorrow by COB

2014-02-12 Thread Tom Browder
On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 7:38 AM, Tom Browder wrote: > On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 7:18 AM, Tom Browder wrote: >> >> After looking at all again I'm revising the proposal to concentrate on >> our processes for mentoring during GSoC, GCI, etc. > > Attached is my revised

Re: [brlcad-devel] [brlcad-commits] SF.net SVN: brlcad:[59842] brlcad/trunk/src/libbu/tests

2014-02-12 Thread Tom Browder
On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 2:24 AM, Christopher Sean Morrison wrote: > Tom, > > On a related note, I get a failure on test 66 even after the revert back to > %d, > so you seem to have exposed another consistency issue as well. Testing > printf directly, I get: Hm, I don't know why I didn't, but '

Re: [brlcad-devel] [brlcad-commits] SF.net SVN: brlcad:[58231] brlcad/trunk/src/libbu/vls_vprintf.c

2014-02-11 Thread Tom Browder
On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 6:41 PM, Tom Browder wrote: > On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 5:40 PM, Tom Browder wrote: >> nothing to do with the input field format itself, this is just part of >> the specification. E.g., for "%W.Po" we're getting the W and the O. > > I

Re: [brlcad-devel] hex chars

2014-02-09 Thread Tom Browder
On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 12:28 PM, Tom Browder wrote: > No argument there! Ideas welcome!. But I'm actually moving toward a > consolidation of such conversions into a more general function--maybe My thoughts on the hex/bin str/bu_vls/bitv conversions: 1. As a group they are conversi

[brlcad-devel] Users Vs. Developers: Definitions

2014-02-09 Thread Tom Browder
Sean has made some good points about some bitv functions I've been adding, and I'm working on addressing them. However, I need some clarification on what exactly is the difference between a "user" and a "developer." for purposes of defining what should be a public or "private" API. As a long-time

Re: [brlcad-devel] hex chars

2014-02-07 Thread Tom Browder
On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 2:53 PM, Christopher Sean Morrison wrote: > Private headers go into the src subdirectory (e.g., into src/libbu) and none > should be installed. Okey dokey. -Tom -- Managing the Performance of Clo

Re: [brlcad-devel] hex chars

2014-02-07 Thread Tom Browder
On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 1:22 PM, Christopher Sean Morrison wrote: > On Feb 7, 2014, at 12:28 PM, Tom Browder wrote: > >> Among other things, the literals, whether global or not, >> need to be defined somewhere, and, IMHO, shouldn't be duplicated. I >> can certainly r

Re: [brlcad-devel] hex chars

2014-02-07 Thread Tom Browder
On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 8:55 AM, Christopher Sean Morrison wrote: > Tom, > > Few thoughts and feedback on the recent addition below. > In all, looks good but where is this to be used? Do you already have > something in mind? > As an API, these are four undocumented new symbols and all are incons

Re: [brlcad-devel] O'Reilly OSCON 2014, Speaker Application Due Tomorrow by COB

2014-01-30 Thread Tom Browder
2014, at 07:38 AM, Tom Browder wrote: On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 7:18 AM, Tom Browder wrote: After looking at all again I'm revising the proposal to concentrate on our processes for mentoring during GSoC, GCI, etc. Attached is my revised proposal. Tom This looks great, nice work. I do

Re: [brlcad-devel] O'Reilly OSCON 2014, Speaker Application Due Tomorrow by COB

2014-01-30 Thread Tom Browder
On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 7:18 AM, Tom Browder wrote: > > After looking at all again I'm revising the proposal to concentrate on > our processes for mentoring during GSoC, GCI, etc. Attached is my revised proposal. -Tom Inputs for a proposed talk: ==

Re: [brlcad-devel] O'Reilly OSCON 2014, Speaker Application Due Tomorrow by COB

2014-01-30 Thread Tom Browder
On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 8:23 PM, Tom Browder wrote: > Attached is the info for my application for a 40-minute speaking slot > at the O'Reilly OSCON 2014. It must be submitted by 11:59pm > 01/30/2014 PST. See: > > http://www.oscon.com/oscon2014 After looking at all ag

[brlcad-devel] O'Reilly OSCON 2014, Speaker Application Due Tomorrow by COB

2014-01-29 Thread Tom Browder
Attached is the info for my application for a 40-minute speaking slot at the O'Reilly OSCON 2014. It must be submitted by 11:59pm 01/30/2014 PST. See: http://www.oscon.com/oscon2014 Any comments are welcome. I will submit it late tomorrow with or without comments. Best regards, -Tom Input

[brlcad-devel] BRL-CAD Color Functions

2014-01-25 Thread Tom Browder
I've been looking at the color tests (in src/libbu/tests) which don't fare well. In my limited research I see that going between an RGB and other systems don't round-trip very well, especially when we start with an integer RGB representation. I have fiddled with several things to try to help the

Re: [brlcad-devel] [brlcad-commits] SF.net SVN: brlcad:[59447] brlcad/trunk

2014-01-17 Thread Tom Browder
On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 6:31 PM, Tom Browder wrote: > On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 6:18 PM, wrote: >> Revision: 59447 >> http://sourceforge.net/p/brlcad/code/59447 >> Author: tbrowder2 >> Date: 2014-01-18 00:18:40 + (Sat, 18 Jan 2014) >> Log Messa

Re: [brlcad-devel] [brlcad-commits] SF.net SVN: brlcad:[59447] brlcad/trunk

2014-01-17 Thread Tom Browder
On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 6:18 PM, wrote: > Revision: 59447 > http://sourceforge.net/p/brlcad/code/59447 > Author: tbrowder2 > Date: 2014-01-18 00:18:40 + (Sat, 18 Jan 2014) > Log Message: > --- ... That was a bogus log message--I thought I had updated that log file but

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