Discussion: Upcoming features

Build process, project management

• Automatic testing of selected examples
• Tests for operators
• Most important functionalities, e.g. SofaExporter

Operators

• Replace VCG mesh reduce with functionality from CGAL

Exporters

• Better Abaqus exporter
• Should an exporter declare supported/unsupported elements?
• Is there a flexible way to add new elements to exporter? (Hooks, etc...)

Alphabet

• Clean up and Naming standards
• Documentation how to define elements and operators.

User Experience and Increasing scope/range

• Better error messages, verbose on/off, logger?
• Development Environment, How to write a C++ Operator?
• Creating a nice web page and documentation
• Define target groups (python dev, msml xml user, c++ library user?) and their entry points

Questions

• Python RunnerAPI?
• Separate exporter file creation and execution? How to handle post processing?