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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 18:39:08 GMT
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In lugnet.cad, Kevin L. Clague wrote:
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In lugnet.cad, William R. Ward wrote:
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The LDRAW tools (including MLCAD) are available for free download in binary
form. But the source code is kept private. I’d like to offer a word of
encouragement to the authors and maintainers of the code to consider opening
the source code. This would allow other users who have the programming
skills to submit patches to fix bugs and add features.
For more information about Open Source please see the
Open Source Initiative Web site. They explain
it a lot better than I can.
Imagine setting up a SourceForge instance or at least a CVS server on
ldraw.org and accepting patches from all and sundry. The author/maintainer
would maintain control over the project, while allowing the LDRAW tools to
be a community-supported system instead of having to do all the work
themselves.
Think about it ...
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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.
Kevin
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That is my experience. Nobody has said anything about the source code I have
posted. And not all of it was my yucky code, but some awesome OpenGL code
written by an OpenGL wiz.
And I have tried to read both ldglite, MBC, and LDView source code. It is all
over my head anyway. So I totally understand why nobody gives feedback. Those
who do know how to read complex code aren’t really interested in reading it
because they would rather code it from scratch using techniques they are familar
with.
What I would like to see, is instead of open source, I would just LOVE to see a
unified developer effort to create an LDraw library, like opengl, openal,
libpng, libsdl, openssl, openldap, etc, etc, etc.
Yeah, we all have our editor preferences. But what about utilites? Does anyone
really cares how a fractal landscape generator works? Or file format
converters? I would like to see these made open source and try to make them as
cross platform as possible (since I can’t use any utilities currently out there
on my Mac except L3P). This is what could be in the libraries.
James
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| (...) I have the beginnings of this with the DATBase, DATModel, and L3Check units used for LDDP. I've been considering splintering these units off into their own project. The only thing hindering me is the (apparent) lack of Delphi programmers in (...) (20 years ago, 15-Apr-04, to lugnet.cad)
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| (...) 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. (...) Kevin (20 years ago, 15-Apr-04, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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