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Re: It’s the year 2008, where are my parts updates?
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Thu, 21 Feb 2008 17:42:32 GMT
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In lugnet.cad, Evan Willnow wrote:
> It has been over two years since the last LDraw parts update. Where the heck are
> the new ones? Are we just letting LDraw die? It is really seeming that way.
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> Yes, I’ve read the ‘Lack of Parts Updates’ article. I read it over a year ago.
> And as far as I can tell everything is waiting on six parts to be redone before
> anything new is released. Is this right? Six parts are causing the downfall of
> the great LDraw?
I'm *sure* that LDraw is not on death row. I have faith that things will get
resolved. I'm sure part of the problem is that we have real lives, and
sometimes that gets in the way of LEGO.
Are you sure you cannot get along with an unofficial release for now?
I've given up on the onesy-twosey bringing down of unofficial parts, and just
bring them all down.
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> Well, as much as I’d love to put my money where my mouth is and recreate these
> parts myself, I’m afraid they are much beyond my LDraw skill set at this time.
> And since it appears no one else has stepped up to do these parts, I think it’s
> to move on and release all of the other newly formatted parts without out them.
> Add the six parts in to a later parts update. It’s not as if LDrawers haven’t
> had to do without a few parts before, and the old versions are still in the
> library of those who’ve used these parts.
I do appreciate your "put your money where your mouth is" comment, because at
least you are thinking about it.
I was never quite sure we started the licensing thing in the first place. I
just wasn't sure what problem we were solving. The licensing was only to avoid
a potential problem in the future, that so far has not raised its ugly head.
I'm still not sure why we cannot just release a new official library, even with
the unlicensed parts. If after the release the original author(s) (whom we
cannot seem to find, or they don't care) wants to take back his or her work,
then we can deal with that then.
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> Tell me if there is something more than these six parts that are gumming up the
> works. Tell me if there is anything else us not skilled enough to build final
> parts could do.
Reviewing parts does not take authoring skills, although I guess it might take
authoring knowledge.
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> But whatever committee makes these decisions I beg you, start releasing parts
> again.
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> Don’t let LDraw die.
I don't think that is going to happen.
Kevin
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Message has 2 Replies:
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| (...) That's what I do, too. And update from time to time. (...) I heartfully agree: we are desperately missing reviewers! While it does require some LDraw knowledge, it is nothing compared to authoring of complex parts... it took me years to get up (...) (17 years ago, 21-Feb-08, to lugnet.cad)
| | | Re: It’s the year 2008, where are my parts updates?
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| (...) As pointed out here: (URL) merge the original LDraw core library with the Complete.exe updates. Once the CA-library is published, there will be just one package containing all parts and no Ldraw.exe, LEdit.exe. Plus the library will be (...) (17 years ago, 21-Feb-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | It’s the year 2008, where are my parts updates?
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| It has been over two years since the last LDraw parts update. Where the heck are the new ones? Are we just letting LDraw die? It is really seeming that way. Yes, I’ve read the ‘Lack of Parts Updates’ article. I read it over a year ago. And as far as (...) (17 years ago, 21-Feb-08, to lugnet.cad)
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