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Re: Why aren't LDRAW tools Open Source?
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lugnet.cad
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Thu, 15 Apr 2004 16:08:04 GMT
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In lugnet.cad, Jason S. Mantor wrote:
> Kevin L. Clague wrote:
> > I gave away the source to LSynth and publicly asked for help, given
> > that it really has never made it past the proof of concept stage.
> > No one has taken me up on it, so going open source, does not
> > neccessadily get you anywhere.
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> I'll be the first to appologize for not having jumped in on this yet : (
> It's on my list of things that I want to make time for though : )
> The problem here isn't the OSS paradigm, it's the relatively small
> audience. It can only grow though ...
Yes, with a wider audience or a desperate need, it's much more likely
someone will be brave enough to jump in and contribute. It also helps
if the project seems active. I tried to generate some activity by
making a portable version of the lsynth GUI:
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/lsynth/lsynth/
But that also went nowhere. Perhaps all the lsynth users have access to
Windows, or prefer the command line?
It also helps to advertise. This page makes no mention of the
sourceforge project with the source code.
http://www.kclague.net/LSynth/index.htm
How do you expect people to find it?
Now, I confess, I don't own the book, so I don't really know what lsynth
does that the other hose generators don't do. Because of that, I don't
really feel qualified to lead the project. However without a leader,
the project will certainly languish. Some ideas have been entertained
in the past such as string, chains, and an LDDP plugin version of the
GUI. Does anyone want this stuff bad enough to take the lead?
Don
PS. We just picked up a spybot and it comes with hoses and fiber optics,
so who knows, maybe we'll discover an lsynth need real soon now...
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| In lugnet.cad, Don Heyse wrote: <snip> (...) I expect people to ask me. (...) LSynth is an all in one synthesizer in that it does hose and band type synthesis, and it is stand alone, and the synthesis process does not involve manual copying of stuff (...) (20 years ago, 15-Apr-04, to lugnet.cad)
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| I'll be the first to appologize for not having jumped in on this yet : ( It's on my list of things that I want to make time for though : ) The problem here isn't the OSS paradigm, it's the relatively small audience. It can only grow though ... (...) (20 years ago, 15-Apr-04, to lugnet.cad)
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