[Radiance-general] OpenStudio-Radiance Demo Videos

[Greg Ward]

The Windows compatibility issues aren't really Perl-specific.  They are more associated with the Windows command line than anything else.  You can't pipe binary data between commands because Windows doesn't track the exact file length, nor can you escape newlines.  This changes how command lines are packaged up and handed off to the shell, and involves some inefficiencies if we do the same thing on all systems, which is why there are some ($windoz) conditionals in genklemsamp.

-Greg

> From: "Guglielmetti, Robert" <Robert.Guglielmetti at nrel.gov>
> Date: November 17, 2011 7:53:30 AM PST
> 
> Right; thanks for pointing that out Greg. I thought genskyvec and genklemsamp have been working for a little while, and I know falsecolor works. Didn't know about genBSDF, thanks for the heads up.
> 
> I wonder if the same issues would happen with Ruby? Hate to reinvent the wheel but from an OpenStudio support perspective, we'd actually be eliminating one dependency (Perl) but I get that most Radiance scripters are in Python land first and foremost, probably Perl second, and Ruby third (and then you have Andrew Marsh using Lua ;) ). Something for us to think about on this end, but I'd rather spend time wrapping Ian Ashdown's Perez sky generator first…
> 
> - Rob
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> 
> On 11/17/11 8:06 AM, "Greg Ward" <gregoryjward at gmail.com<mailto:gregoryjward at gmail.com>> wrote:
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> There may be some issues with Perl scripts and Windows.  I don't think genBSDF will work in its current configuration.  Andy McNeil and I fixed genklemsamp and genskyvec, and I think Axel's falsecolor script works, so it may just be genBSDF that needs an update.
> 
> -Greg