Ovf file structure description

Created by: ax-meyer

I added an description for the OVF File structure so that someone else could implement a compatible reader / writer in another language.

Furthermore, added checks & conversion in the C# code to make sure that the LUT indices are always written as LittleEndian. @SebastianDirks Can you (or the Hiwi who implemented the simultaneous reading / writing of WorkPlanes for the file structure) sanity check my description? Since I didn't implement it, I reconstructed it from the code, I may still have gotten something wrong in the logic there.

assigned to @ax-meyer

requested review from @SebastianDirks

added documentation enhancement labels

requested review from @DanielLorrig

Created by: SebastianDirks

The Hiwi is MStorm90. I added him for short review. Will have a look tomorrow

Created by: SebastianDirks

There was a suggestion brought to me to move the ovf_lut.proto and this definitions to the definition repo because of licensing issues when parsing OVF files using the LUT which here has a GPL. Should we maybe tackle that in one step?

Created by: ax-meyer

Oh, I hadn't thought of this yet, yes, sounds good.

Will you do the move or should I?

Created by: SebastianDirks

I added an explanation of delimited methods and pitfalls in e.g. C++. Can you do the move @ax-meyer?

Created by: ax-meyer

I moved the ovf_lut.proto file to the OpenVectorFormat repository, including the documentation. As soon as the pr is merged there, I will push the updated Tools projects with the reference for the correct commit in the submodule.

Created by: DanielLorrig

Review: Approved

Merged by: ax-meyer at 2021-07-02 11:15:28 UTC

merged manually

closed