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linux ldraw users
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lugnet.cad
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Fri, 19 Sep 2003 15:03:58 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.mlcad, Travis Cobbs wrote:
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I agree that cross-platform is good, and I also think that OpenGL is a more
appropriate API to use because of this. However, I think it’s only fair to
point out that after releasing a Linux native version of LDView, I got
exactly one piece of Linux-related feedback. (That particular thread then
generated various other responses by other users.) Now maybe my first Linux
release was just that good, but I highly doubt it.
In addition, my Linux release was for LDView version 1.9.7. Since then, I
have released 6 versions of LDView for Windows without updating the Linux
version, and I haven’t had a single person ask me when I’ll get around to
updating the Linux version.
To me, all this says that at the very least most of the people intersted in
using LDView aren’t running Linux. Perhaps this is because the people
running Linux don’t have good OpenGL performance on their machines. Or
perhaps the people running Linux aren’t intersted in a real-time viewer for
their Lego models. Or perhaps there aren’t many LDraw users in Linux due to
a lack of other tools. Or maybe there just aren’t that many people who use
LDView at all, and I’m deluding myself that it seems to be fairly popular in
Windows.
On top of all this, even though I did all the hard work of getting a Linux
version up and running in the first place, I haven’t had anyone offer to
update my Linux release to bring it up-to-date with the latest Windows
release. (Note that a vast majority of the newer features would be trivial
to integrate into the Linux version, since it would simply require updating
the preferences UI to support them.) To me, this says that the other Linux
developers are either busy doing other things, or also don’t really care
about having an up-to-date Linux version of LDView. (While I have made
promises to update the Linux version with each Windows release, I haven’t
exactly implied that it will happen soon, just “eventually”.)
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I’m not sure I agree with your assumptions about Linux users. From
my experience, they seem to be more self sufficient and generally tend
to ask fewer questions. I’ve been too busy to play with LDView
lately, but if I did, I’d just compile it myself from the latest
sources, and I’d probably incorporate any new goodies from the
latest Windows sources if they weren’t there. That’s what tkdiff is
for. For all you know, someone could have RPMs (or whatever) on the
net with the latest LDView already built and ready to run. I myself
have no idea how long the Debian packages for ldglite were available
before I found out about them.
Don
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Message has 1 Reply:
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| Don, thanks for including the .cad group; I don't keep up w/ the .mlcad group. I agree that there's just not a lot of publicity for the Linux flavor of tools. I've been using the LDraw tools since late 1999. I didn't realize the benefit of LDView (...) (21 years ago, 19-Sep-03, to lugnet.cad)
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