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Re: Request for more stringent naming of (Complete|Shortcut) parts
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lugnet.cad
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Thu, 18 Sep 2008 01:16:24 GMT
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In lugnet.cad, Chris Dee wrote:
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> Yes, they should, but the "mistake" was made eight years ago, before we had the
> clarity that time brings to standards implementation. The same applies to
> 754-756, at least.
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> For backward compatibility reasons we can never remove these files from the
> parts directory, as people may have used them directly in models, and we don't
> want to break those models. The best we could do is to replace them with "~Moved
> to" files that redirect to a file in the parts/s directory. But all that does is
> add another file to the library, for little added value.
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> This dilemma was recognised in the mass header edit that was part of the
> Contributor Agreement implementation resulting in the 2008-01 update. The
> description lines in these files are now prefixed with a tilde, indicating that
> LDraw applications should not list them in their parts list.
This is good to know. Sorry if I missed that.
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> Chris
Kevin
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