[Bf-taskforce25] Editmesh accessor functions

[Campbell Barton]

In general making 2.5 ready for BMesh integration seems good, (by
using functions access functions of thats what you need)

* How many lines roughly would need changing (trying to get an idea of
how big this is), will this mess up merging from 2.4x (etch-a-ton) or
other projects?
* Assume the accessor functions will be there for your convenience in
2.5 making no real changes, the slowdown will be in the BMesh branch
(with conversion from/to editmesh)
* Make an example patch and check with Briggs && (Ton || Brecht), if
they are ok then go ahead IMHO.

On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 9:26 AM, Shaul Kedem <shaul.kedem at gmail.com> wrote:
> won't conversion back and forth will slow blender?
>
> On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 7:38 PM, joe <joeedh at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Yeah.  Or well not necassarily *in* 2.5, but whenever bmesh integrated
>> into the main development branch.
>>
>> On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 4:01 PM, Shaul Kedem <shaul.kedem at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Joe,
>>>  From what you wrote, it sounds like you want both editmesh and bmesh
>>> structures to reside in 2.5, is that true?
>>>
>>> Shaul
>>>
>>> On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 11:51 AM, joe <joeedh at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> For bmesh development (to have an easier migration from editmesh) it'd
>>>> be nice if certain tools that use editmesh could still work even after
>>>> bmesh replaces editmesh.  Given the nonglobal design of 2.5, this
>>>> shouldn't be hard; simply have uses of editmesh go through accessors
>>>> functions.  These accessor functions would handle the necessary
>>>> conversions for editmesh tools to work with a bmesh.
>>>>
>>>> It seems to me that the use of such accessor functions should be done
>>>> in the 2.5 branch, then merged over to bmesh, instead of the other way
>>>> around.  The 2.5 versions would obviously be fairly simple, just give
>>>> access to Mesh->edit_mesh; while the ones in bmesh would do the more
>>>> complex conversion necassary for editmesh operators to work.
>>>>
>>>> Anyway, what does everyone else think?
>>>>
>>>> Joe
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