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| From: | Rodrigo Rodrigues da Silva |
| Subject: | Re: [libredwg] [news] Autodesk and Open Design Alliance Reach Agreement for Autodesk DWG Trademarks |
| Date: | Mon, 10 May 2010 10:23:56 -0300 |
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On 06-05-2010 12:10, Frank Warmerdam wrote:
I personally think the DWGdirect API is fairly clumsy and large and it would not necessarily be a good idea to tie to it.
I agree. I've been dealing with a dwg import plugin on GRASS that uses DWGDirect. I am porting it to LibreDWG. It is fairly simple (it imports lines, polylines, circles and blocks/inserts), but I had a lot of work to move it to the LibreDWG API - which is a lot easier to use.
I think we should not rely on DWGDirect's API, but a compatibility layer that would make migration to LibreDWG easier would be welcome if there aren't any copyright issues. We should check with the FSF lawyers before commiting that to savannah.
-- Rodrigo Rodrigues da Silva GNU LibreDWG maintainer FSF Associate Member #7788 PoliGNU - Grupo de Estudos de Software Livre da Poli/USP
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