Long term goals

On this page, we discuss goals we would like to achieve, to help us prioritize them.

In progress

Remove all compiler warnings

• Rationale:
• C++ difficulty: low
• Impact on OCE code: medium
• Impact on 3rd party code: low

Under discussion

Replace OCC containers by templated ones

• Rationale:
• C++ difficulty: high
• Impact on OCE code: high
• Impact on 3rd party code: high, unless we find a compatible solution

Replace OCC handles by smart pointers

• Rationale:
• C++ difficulty: medium
• Impact on OCE code: high
• Impact on 3rd party code: high, unless we find a compatible solution

Proper deallocation of OCC resources when unloaded

• Rationale:
• C++ difficulty: high, and high risks of conflicts with OCCT changes with respect to multithreading
• Impact on OCE code: medium
• Impact on 3rd party code: low

Implement a mechanism to find resource path at runtime

• Rationale: we want to get rid of all environment variables (they can still be used as fallback though). Resource path can be specified by compiling; this is acceptable on Unix, but not on Windows. We want a more flexible solution.
• C++ difficulty: medium
• Impact on OCE code: low
• Impact on 3rd party code: low