[Radiance-general] CVS?

[Peter Apian-Bennewitz]

Georg Mischler wrote:
> 
> Randolph Fritz wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, Jun 07, 2002 at 12:19:58PM -0400, Georg Mischler wrote:
> > >
> > > Speaking more generally, I'd like to put in a strong vote for
> > > ansifying Radiance completely. Even though this might look like a
> > > highly tedious task (and probably is), I'd expect it to uncover
> > > and eliminate at least a one or two dozen subtle bugs throughout
> > > the code. In the long run, it would make all future development a
> > > lot easier. Of course, if Radiance were to be put on public CVS
> > > later this year, there's no reason why you would have to make
> > > this conversion yourself...
> > >
> >
> > Are there formal plans to do this at this point, do you know?  Is
> > LBL going to continue to maintain radsite?
> 
> >From my side, that was more like a hidden suggestion... ;)
> It certainly would make a lot of sense though.

positively a good idea. IMHO a full rewrite would be a better
investment, timewise, than an ANSIfication, at least for the existing
core rendering. I'm not saying the core is badly written or
malfunctioning. Just that any code tends to grow over the years and
accumulated insights are sometimes best served when starting freshly
with a blank sheet. - Greg ?

Peripheral programs (practically everything apart from
rpict/rview/rtrace) will be a lot easier to port to ANSI-C and could be
dealed with in a parallel way.
 
Problems of the technical infrastruture (like setting up and running a
CVS server) are very certainly easily solved (e.g. on this machine which
handles the mailing list).

cheers
Peter
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