[cad-linux] Re: CAD with server/client architecture
- From: Jim Parker <hopeye@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: cad-linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 12 May 2003 17:33:25 -0400
On 2003.05.12 17:14 Eric Wilhelm wrote:
>
> > The following was supposedly scribed by
> > Jim Parker
> > on Monday 12 May 2003 03:53 pm:
>
> >All my plug-ins will be written in C. Stuff like FEA/CFD, I will use
> >system calls to programs like FELT, and create a module to write the
> >proper input file, and to process output files.
>
> I like this idea. This was one of the first concepts I had in how to
> get
> non-cooperative proprietary programs working with the system: they
> would be
> presented with their native file-format, created by a translator and
> after
> the program closed, this would be translated back into the core
> database.
> One problem with this is that named geometry and associations would
> not be
> easily mantained across this interface, which is why cooperation from
> the
> front-end programs is key to making the CAD-as-Operating-System idea
> work.
>
> --Eric
>
>
The alternative to to rewrite the code to use your native format, which
I do not want to take on. You could try to get them to change formats,
but I doubt mature projects are willing to do that.
So the best alternative after that is to use OSS projects, maintain a
source tree. If you don't like the way a project goes, create a fork.
cheers,
Jim Parker
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