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Re: LDraw File Format Spec 1.0 DRAFT - Call for Public Comments
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lugnet.cad
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Date:
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Tue, 28 Aug 2007 21:03:40 GMT
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In lugnet.cad, Travis Cobbs wrote:
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In lugnet.cad, Travis Cobbs wrote:
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While at it, please disallow spaces in filenames in line type 1.
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This is why so many novice computer users think that computers are hard to
use. Developers make arbitrary (and totally unnecessary) restrictions like
this, and then don’t understand when the users complain. They tell the
users that they are wrong. Well, I’m here to tell you, spaces in filenames
are a fact of life, and not supporting them in your software is bad.
Disallowing them in a general file spec like this is, in my opinion, totally
unconscionable.
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I thought I’d add a clarification to the above. A quick look at LDView’s
Change History file will
show that I only added support for spaces in submodel filenames in version
3.0. Furthermore, I listed it as an addition, not a bug fix, and LDView even
spits out a warning when it finds such filenames.
I perfectly well understand that many programs don’t support this, and I’m
not saying that those programs are broken. What I am saying it that it’s not
appropriate to say in the spec that spaces aren’t allowed in filenames. And
furthermore, I think that supporting spaces in filenames is a feature that
programs should have going forward (which is what this spec is all about).
Users should be able to use them and they should work. The main reason for
having them be discouraged (as they are in the spec) is because many programs
don’t support them.
--Travis
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Travis,
I have *had to add* support for blanks in LPub, because so many kids expect to
be able to use them. Unfortunatly, kids won’t read the spec, they will just do
what comes naturally. I’m an old goat, so I’m personally not a fan of blanks in
filenames....
My WYSIWYG version allows for blanks in file names.
Kevin
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