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Re: Instead of ~Moved to
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lugnet.cad
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Wed, 20 Jan 2010 03:42:45 GMT
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In lugnet.cad, Steve Bliss wrote:
> Tore,
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> I'm not really seeing the problem in the parts\s directory - there are 18 "moved
> to" files there.
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> My parts directory has 456 "moved to" files, but there's not really any way
> around having those -- they serve two purposes:
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> a) provide backwards compatibility for existing model files
> b) because ldraw.org's distribution method can only add & update files,
> providing stub files seems to be the best way to overwrite obsolete files.
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> Steve
For some reason, those 18 "moved to" files in parts\s make a lot of noise for
me. I know they shouldn't but they do and I haven't figured out the reason yet.
There is another problem. It is kind of subtile, so I don't know if I'm able to
communicate it in an understandable way with my stumbling English, but I'll try.
It brings a very unsatisfying feeling that an LDraw model will never ever be
finished. The same moment a new official parts update is realeased, I guess 99%
of all the tens of thousands of LDraw models made by LDraw users all over this
world through all these years are outdated and in need of a touch-up. We need to
ask ourselves if *this* really is accepatable.
While working on Datsville, my todo-list is unfortunately growing much faster
than the "done" items in the history file. This is of course not due to "moved
to" files; I have made a little DOS utility that changes the moved to references
in seconds. But it adds sordin to the inspiration knowing that a model will and
can never ever be finished, even if I've made all the changes I can think of. I
feel that I have the permission to edit those model files as much as I have to
in order to make Datsville "work" and maybe some day even expand again. Yet,
with this more or less expressed permission, I would feel less uncomfortable
with this poking into other people's work if I knew that someday when I reached
a level of perfection, I can finally leave a model file in peace as it is and
move on forward. I know I can't do that today. The next parts update, I'll have
to update almost all models again according to all the moved to parts.
Datville's "MovedTo.log" file is closing up to 500kB. Half a million characters.
That's a whole lot of name changes - and yet I know I have forgotten to add some
to the log file...
A "~Renamed to" tag would solve that problem and model files will not become
perpetually outdated.
/Tore
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| (...) Hmmm, subparts are used by many parts so I can see how they might be referenced a gazillion times by an extremely large model file like Datsville. (...) What tool makes the movedto.log file that's giving you such trouble? Can it be adjusted to (...) (15 years ago, 20-Jan-10, to lugnet.cad)
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| Tore, I'm not really seeing the problem in the parts\s directory - there are 18 "moved to" files there. My parts directory has 456 "moved to" files, but there's not really any way around having those -- they serve two purposes: a) provide backwards (...) (15 years ago, 19-Jan-10, to lugnet.cad)
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