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I'm going to start development on the LDraw.org OMR. Currently I'm in the brainstorming and idea phase of the project. Here's my ideas: - Automated submission via forms - Submissions moderated prior to inclusion in the database - Automatic previw (...) (18 years ago, 18-Dec-06, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LDraw Official Model Repository (OMR)
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(...) Should it allow for multiple versions of the same set? Seems mean if 2 people both happen to have done the same set not to be able to credit them both. And there's the problem of who decides which one is "best" anyway. Maybe it could be like (...) (18 years ago, 18-Dec-06, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LDraw Official Model Repository (OMR)
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(...) Ok, this shows how clueless I am, but what language will it be? Will it be part of the postnuke framework? Is it PHP? (...) Ok, I'm not promising, but I actually may like to do that. Especially if I get to deny submissions because it was (...) (18 years ago, 19-Dec-06, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Presumably, yes. (...) Yes (...) That's great. I'm not sure I'd want to reject a legitimate submission outright but it could be assign a "need work" tag. I'm also not interested in making the OMR like the Parts Tracker. In other words, I want (...) (18 years ago, 19-Dec-06, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LDraw Official Model Repository (OMR)
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(...) I'm a visitor/user not a programer (in any sense of the word). My two cents: Great Idea. To be able to download a model that I don't have (and thus can't CAD myself) is awesome. Moderating them is good for the users to protect them from models (...) (18 years ago, 19-Dec-06, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LDraw Official Model Repository (OMR)
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(...) I don't wish to dissuade you from going ahead with this, but I'm just wondering if there's really that much demand for such a thing. I recall seeing something similar a few years ago. It was pretty much dormant, and looked like it had been for (...) (18 years ago, 19-Dec-06, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LDraw Official Model Repository (OMR)
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(...) Writing a JAVA applet to view LDRAW files is certainly fesable given a good JAVA programmer (which I am not). One may already exist :) With such an applet it could pull the dat files (official or otherwise) from the web on an as-needed basis (...) (18 years ago, 19-Dec-06, to lugnet.cad)
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