id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	priority	milestone	component	version	resolution	keywords	cc
85	Enable survex parser to be used by more external programs	Wookey	Olly Betts	"Survex files are hard to parse fully and correctly. Quite a few other programs have implemented parsers and mostly get it wrong.

Using the real parser is a much better plan. However this is only currently possible by snapshotting the imgc. and img.h files, and as they are C it only works sensibly with C and C++ programs. Anyone parsing from java (Tunnel or caveconverter) or Python (troggle) is out of luck.

Dump3d partly solves this problem, but only a subset of info in the the .3d files.

Making an actual library and/or API which could be used by other programs would make life a lot easier for many things.

Being able to support both survex and therion formats would be even better, but that should be another ticket."	enhancement	new	minor		Other