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Re: Still no zip file for 2008-01?
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lugnet.cad
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Thu, 25 Dec 2008 23:22:57 GMT
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In lugnet.cad, Michael Heidemann wrote:
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In lugnet.cad, Allen Smith wrote:
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LDraw Library Update 2008-01 is still posted only as a Windows executable.
Why is there not yet an universally-accessible zip file of its contents?
Allen
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Why do you need that? Under Linux I have tested this executable and it works
perfect (with wine).
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That’s goofy. The content of the library update is a group of LDraw files, not a
program. Zip is a common and perfectly reasonable format for distributing such
files; it is natively supported on most operating systems I’m aware of. Packing
some text files as a Windows executable to run under Wine or some other Windows
compatibility system is hardly an optimal solution for Mac or Linux users.
Allen, I suspect it’s just the case that those who prepared that release weren’t
very familiar with the growth of the LDraw system beyond Windows. I’ll try to
see if a zip version can be made available.
Jim
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Message has 2 Replies:
 | | Re: Still no zip file for 2008-01?
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| (...) Actually with the new license anyone can repackage it as a regular zip. I suspect most zip programs could open the executable zip anyway. But I agree that ldraw.org should make it available in a universal format. I'd guess it just slipped (...) (16 years ago, 26-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
| | | Re: Still no zip file for 2008-01?
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| (...) Note that most programs that can extract ZIP files should be able to extract the contents of the EXE file - self-extracting ZIPs are valid ZIP files themselves. ROSCO (16 years ago, 30-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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