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Re: It’s the year 2008, where are my parts updates?
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lugnet.cad
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Fri, 22 Feb 2008 06:56:16 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?
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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.
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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.
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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.
No, LDraw is not on its death bed. Things are going on in the background -
although with less vigour than I would wish since Christmas, due to an overload
of other commitments.
Most of the conversion work on the existing official library is done, but some
late requirements came to light, and I really want to incorporate those to
improve consistency and ease of maintenance of the library in the future. It is
not really about the "six parts" any more - these and others with significant
work done by authors who have not affirmed the Contributor Agreement, will be
put into a separate non-distributable download.
My other workload should lighten up after next week and I will get this back on
track. Once the restructured library has been issued, I'm hopeful that updates
can follow on a regular basis.
Chris Dee
(LDraw Parts Library Admin)
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