nmwsharp
add support for 64 bit integer
This adds type support for int64_t and uint64_t with their equivalent PLY types int64 and uint64.
There is no standard uint128_t for testing the exception in addFaceIndices. This requires boost and is therefore optional.
Thanks for submitting this! Pardon the slow response.
Although I see the obvious utility, I'm reluctant to merge this because the 8+ byte int types are not listed in the "specification" of the .ply format here. Honestly that page is not much of an official spec, but it's the closest we have. I don't want to encourage folks to casually create .ply files that other software definitely cannot read.
If we really wanted to add this, maybe we could guard it behind some obnoxiously-worded functions like PlyData::write_nonstandard() or something like that....
Not sure where a proper "standard" would be, but at least Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PLY_(file_format)) says:
The type can be specified with one of char uchar short ushort int uint float double, or one of int8 uint8 int16 uint16 int32 uint32 float32 float64.
I would say that software that cannot handle a certain data type should ignore the property and notify the user.