[Radiance-general] Re: Python Radiance Package

[Randolph M. Fritz]

If people are interested, the Labs is offering subversion server space 
on one of our servers.  When we get the website update project a bit 
further along, we'll be able to give the project a page, too.

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Randolph M. Fritz • RFritz at lbl.gov
Environmental Energy Technologies Division • Lawrence Berkeley Labs




On 2010-11-08 08:58:45 -0800, Thomas Bleicher said:

> On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 11:36 AM, Greg Ward 
> <gregoryjward at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Well, it sounds like there is significant groundswell around this idea.
>> I suggest that interested parties/developers organize a host site for
>> this effort and someone (Dave?) take charge of the project.
> 
> Google code projects are easy to set up and almost everyone
> in this thread already has a gmail account. It may be more difficult
> to find a source control system that everybody agrees on ...
> 
>> Ongoing maintenance is something to think about as well,
>> as new Radiance releases will likely continue to have some
>> minor changes and some major additions.
> 
> Since everybody is happy with a simple 'subprocess' wrapper
> around the Radiance binaries there shouldn't be much ongoing
> maintenance. Python 2 vs 3 is more likely to cause additional
> work than the Radiance interface.
> 
> However, I can see that an additional advantage of this project
> could be that the remaining CSH scripts (and possibly Perl scripts)
> in the main Radiance distribution get finally pythonized. In that
> case should the new scripts be kept separately or should they
> find their way back into the distribution?
> 
> Thomas


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Randolph M. Fritz • RFritz at lbl.gov
Environmental Energy Technologies Division • Lawrence Berkeley Labs