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"Tim Courtney" <tim@zacktron.com> wrote in message
news:GCMuJ8.E5M@lugnet.com...
> I think the parts should be zipped into an unofficial archive, hosted on • the
> site under /download/updates/unofficial/ and with a big disclaimer • attached.
> Then the system Steve is working on should be completed, and the parts run
> through it and updated properly and added into the official updates.
I think this needs a little modification - if the parts could be zipped
separately then people could just get the ones they want, and as new
unofficial parts are sent they could be added as individual zips rather than
having to keep creating new batches of parts. If only I had a web server
with MS ASP on I could throw together a system to handle uploading of parts
and automatic conversion to zip format in about 30 minutes, it's that
simple. I guess I'm going to have to look into getting ADSL at home and
running a web server on my laptop so I can help out with this sort of thing
:)
BTW: if the unofficial releases are individually zipped you could also link
the parts ref to them so people could search for and download just the parts
they want. Not sure how practical that would be (plus I guess you'd need to
link all the officially parts to a "offical release" page and the "not done"
parts to a "not done yet" page which could make things a bit difficult).
Dan
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In lugnet.cad.dev, Daniel Crichton writes:
> I think this needs a little modification - if the parts could be zipped
> separately then people could just get the ones they want, and as new
> unofficial parts are sent they could be added as individual zips rather than
> having to keep creating new batches of parts. If only I had a web server
> [...]
Let's not reinvent the wheel. This process is already largely done, I would
think, as part of the new parts update system now in development. The
interim solution needs to be quick & easy for the implementors.
Cheers,
- jproat
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In lugnet.cad.dev, Jeremy H. Sproat writes:
> Let's not reinvent the wheel. This process is already largely done, I would
> think, as part of the new parts update system now in development. The
> interim solution needs to be quick & easy for the implementors.
The problem I see with releasing the current unofficial parts in a single
download is that it's going to make it harder for anyone who wants to help
out in checking individual parts - they're going to have to download a large
ZIP file of parts to find the one they want, and if the new system takes a
long time to get up and running then I can see that in the near future there
will be a call for yet another unofficial interim release and then there
will be 2, or 3, or more lumps of parts to download, making it even harder
to find individual parts. The whole point of posting unofficial parts to
cad.dat.parts, at least as far as I could tell in my short time here, was to
provide a way for LDraw (and clones) users to review the parts and suggest
fixes, basically providing a way to get the parts completed to near
perfection before being added to the official release. By providing a ZIP
containing all the current unofficial parts that Steve has collected it's
obvious that this just won't happen, and Steve doesn't have time to review
them all himself (I'm making a sweeping assumption here!). I can see why an
official release is better - unofficial releases will just end up with only
cursory checks made on the parts and dilute the quality of the existing parts.
What a turn around - I've gone from asking for individual part downloads to
none at all!
Dan
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