[gdal-dev] Small meshing utility

[Tim Keitt]

On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 11:11 AM, Chris Barker <chris.barker at noaa.gov> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 6:31 PM, Tim Keitt <tkeitt at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Just letting folks know that we've released an OGR wrapper for the
>> Triangle library. It would be great if folks could test it. I could
>> also use some help improving the OGR bits.
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> cool! though I"m a little confused as to how this fits with OGR.

OGR is used for i/o.

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> Also -- how did you deal with the fact that triangle calls the system
> exit() function on error -- that could bring down whatever your host
> process is.

Its a simple command line utility. Not much harm done if it calls exit.

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> We've written a wrapper around triangle for Python (anyone feel free
> to send me a note if you're interested), and we ended up handling that
> by spawning another process to run triangle in -- but that has
> performance issues (copying data around) which would be nice to avoid.

I don't call triangle, I pass arguments to the C-level API.

>
> If only triangle has a nicer licensing scheme -- it really is a nice utility.

Only prohibition is you can't sell it without a license.

THK

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