IRC log for #brlcad on 20181124

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03:25.41 brlcad teepee: it's 'alive' in the sense that it's in use by a handful of folks, but nobody is actively working on the code right now
03:26.45 brlcad we work on it when we need to and effectively have a more stable / older fork of the github code that we use in our ap203 parser
03:31.03 teepee hmm
03:44.14 brlcad the domain was let go by mpictor (a young guy that was maintaining the website)
03:44.20 brlcad guess he didn't update all of the refs
03:59.24 brlcad I think part of it is that we've had a perception that it's "done enough" for what we needed it for in our 203 parser, and a fairly comprehensive spec implementation for most APs
04:03.32 brlcad there's some new concepts in ap242 that probably won't parse well without some ap21 changes in the stepcode side, but it should handle 203 and 214 just fine
04:03.55 brlcad most of the effort when implementing a parser is on the app side, not on the parsing side
04:04.20 brlcad you can see our glue in src/conv/step in the brlcad repo
05:58.28 teepee what I've seen the use cases are probably 214 (e.g. generating models for kicad)
06:00.05 teepee I'm mostly worried as it not being in any distribution, produces huge amounts of make install errors and I'm not able to find out in an hour how to even build the ap203min example
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