[Thuban-list] export to APR ?

[Jan-Oliver Wagner]

On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 01:15:10PM +0100, Moritz Lennert wrote:
> Are there plans of creating an exportAPR extension similar to importAPR ?

so, after it is generally agreed that this indeed is a helpful feature:

I do not have currently plans to implement this.
Note, that
even my implementation of the importAPR extension is only a
coarse demo that needs to be completeted to get the best
import results.

An export would be more complicated because I can not
ignore various information like for the import. A consistent
apr-file needs to be written and actually only ESRI knows 
what consistent means.

Of course the file format can be reverse engineered.
It might even be possible to implement a method that, after loading
an apr-file, transscribes all changed made in Thuban to the apr-data and then
saves them alltogether with those information that were no understood
by Thuban.

However, the efford for all of this will not be low.
I estimate 1-2 weeks for a basic APR-Export. About 4 weeks
to make it use really smooth. And about another 4 weeks
to implement this transscription feature.

Best

	Jan

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