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Re: Announcing Bricksmith for Macintosh
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lugnet.cad.dev.mac
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Thu, 25 Aug 2005 14:59:18 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dev.mac, James Reynolds wrote:
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There are a few reasons for not distributing the LDraw library.
1). Legal reasons. I don’t remember what they are, I just know that James
Jessiman’s family owns the rights to the core of the library and they have
made their decision. Since the formalization of the LDraw Steering
Committee, the licensing might have changed. I’m not sure.
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Well, I suppose that as long as we’re stuck with lawyers in our society, we have
to face realities like this. We don’t have to like it, though.
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2). Updates. People were distributing the library with their app and it
quickly got out of date. Really out of date. And it was hard to get them to
update their downloads. And it was a mess. For me. ;) In fact, I don’t
think anyone really updated their downloads. Oh well.
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Making LDRAW-using apps harder to use doesn’t really help this, though. People
who stick with it long enough to get LDRAW installed someplace are (in general)
going to be no more likely to update it thereafter than people who got it
conveniently included with the app. It’s not like it’s hidden in Bricksmith --
it’s right there next to the app in a folder called “LDraw”. I’ll see it every
time I go to launch Bricksmith. In fact, I’d argue that I’m more likely to
update it this way, than if I’ve installed the dang thing in some library folder
as some previous app (Mac Brick CAD?) required.
Ideally, as far as point 2 goes anyway, a CAD program would come with a copy of
LDraw so you can just launch it and run (even if, for example, you happen to be
setting on an airplane when you get around to unpacking and trying it), but it
would also check for LDraw updates, and automatically download and install
them, whenever the network is available.
Best,
Joe
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| (...) [snip] (...) Well, not actually required; rather, that location was recommended. Both LDGLite and Mac Brick Cad will use an LDRAW library where ever it is as long as you set the location using the Preferences panel. I think the programmers (...) (19 years ago, 25-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Re: Announcing Bricksmith for Macintosh
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| (...) Yes, but it is the best way. When the library isn't found, just display a window asking "1). browser for library" "2). search for library" "3). download library and install (New uses select this)" That should keep the low-attention-span Mac OS (...) (19 years ago, 25-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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