is planar deprecated?

[greenmoss]

Hello,

I was looking at planar, and it has a really nice API. However judging
from other messages on this list which I just read, it is a deprecated
project. That, plus it breaks for me on 32-bit macports/OSX python. So
is it going to receive no further attention?

If not, might I suggest sticking some large/bold/red text at the top
of the various planar project pages out on the intarweb saying it's
been deprecated? For example, this page:

http://pypi.python.org/pypi/planar/

[Casey Duncan]

Planar is not being developed further. I added a note to the pypi page.

Note that it is usable in its present form and has 100% test coverage.
If you let me know the build error, I may be able to help fix it. I
might also suggest building a python yourself from source as an
alternative. This is quite easy to do.

-Casey

[Stuart Axon]

Still, looks pretty useful - hopefully someone will take it up.

Any chance you could put the docs on readthedocs?

The original pygamesf site seems inaccessible.

[Casey Duncan]

You can get to the docs via the pypi hosted doc site:
http://pythonhosted.org/planar/

hth,

-Casey

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[Stuart Axon]

2 years later and this library is insanely useful ... is it deprecated in favour of another library, or just looking for new maintainers ?

[Casey Duncan]

I'm glad someone is still using it. I don't know of another library that succeeds it. In part I abandoned it due to being unable to sustain the level of perfectionism that I set for myself. I do know there are other geometry libs out there for Python, but at least the last time I looked they were geared heavily toward GIS applications.

There are definitely major things that planar lacks that I had intended to develop: Unions and intersections being two major ones. I also had intended to add support for collections of geometries (Spaces) that would allow bulk calculations. Another area I had thought about were things like fields and grids and other infinite geometries. Another feature I thought about was to describe a new geometry by sweeping another over a line which could be useful for approximating movement over time as input to a physics engine among other things.

All fodder for someone else to fool around with :^)

-Casey