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bow-simulation / virtualbow

Software for designing and simulating bows

http://www.virtualbow.org/

GNU General Public License v3.0

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Split the application into several executables #171

Closed stfnp closed 4 years ago

stfnp commented 4 years ago

Most CAE software has three distinct components: A preprocessor, a solver and a postprocessor. For example, following Simpack's naming convention:

virtualbow-gui: Edit input files, run virtualbow-slv and open results in virtualbow-post
virtualbow-slv: Take input file, run simulation and produce a result file
virtualbow-post: Open and visualize result files

Advantages:

Separation of concerns, components are more independent from each other
Simpler command line interfaces (without using subcommands)
Possibility to view results without going through the main application (as it is now)
Future possibility to gradually reimplement components in technologies that are most suited for the particular task

Related issues: #100, #72