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Re: The future of LDraw?
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lugnet.cad
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Sun, 21 Mar 2010 21:10:21 GMT
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In lugnet.cad, Joshua Delahunty wrote:
> This brings up another point that hasn't entirely been part of the discussion:
> the concept of self-helped individuals versus end users. A lot of people early
> on (by necessity) were quite willing to climb the mountain to get LDRAW set up.
> They don't mind a little tinkering and manual labor to get things into place,
> and to tweak and tinker along the way to keep things updated.
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> The project has since moved into a new phase where there are plenty of end users
> of the products. They don't like or want (and shouldn't need) to worry about
> the nuts and bolts, they just want to use cool software.
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> When you get to that point, you "lock in" a certain set of requirements, and
> those requirements dictate rigor and attention, in order to provide consistency
> and clarity.
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> Long gone are the days that an author can "play" with a part, changing the
> origin or default posing on a whim. There are a host of issues that go along
> with that. So a lot of the growth of "committees" and voting and the cost of
> entry are due to those factors as well. The library has a host of annoying
> errors (such as pairs of parts that have the wrong part numbers, but have to
> stay that way for backward compatibility) that are really locked in, because of
> that issue. In a way, the project is a bit of a victim of its own success.
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> It's because of all those issues that part authors and reviewers are much more
> careful to "get it right" the first time, so we don't get stuck with designs or
> situations that are lacking.
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> The whole "rewrite every header by hand" job that Chris had to do certainly
> didn't help the situation, of course. It really HAD to happen, though.
>
> -- joshuaD
That's a really good explanation of why the 'rules and regulations' have grown
alongside the part library and software.
Tim
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