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Re: Instead of ~Moved to
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lugnet.cad
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Fri, 22 Jan 2010 03:54:46 GMT
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In lugnet.cad, Chris Dee wrote:
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It would be good to be able to remove the litter of unused files, such as
orphaned subfiles, where a dithered colour has been inlined in the course of
other changes, and this would be possible with a proper installer that could
delete files during the installation. However when a Windows installer
download was introduced with 2008-01 in response to requests from novice
users, I received negative feedback from users who still wanted the familiar
lack of sophistication of a zip archive.
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The zip archive’s chief virtue is not its familiarity, but its cross-platform
portability. It’s very important to maintain that.
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These orphans cannot even be replaced with
zero-length files, because BrickSmith chokes on these.
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I fixed that Bricksmith bug about a year and a half ago, so you don’t need to
worry about it anymore.
I second the opinion that the utility of ~Moved files outweighs any annoyance.
In Bricksmith, ~Moved parts go into a separate category so they never actually
get in the way of model-building. What does annoy me is the spread of “alias”
parts and hard-colored parts. The proliferation of duplicate part numbers is
confusing, especially since I haven’t updated my part browser yet to filter them
out.
Allen
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Message has 1 Reply:
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| In lugnet.cad, Allen Smith wrote: <SNIP> (...) Depending on their viewpoint and experience with LDraw, different users might argue that either inclusion OR exlclusion can be confusing. By including both in the library and providing a way to identify (...) (15 years ago, 25-Jan-10, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: Instead of ~Moved to
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| (...) I was going to start my response with "I don't understand", but Orion beat me to it. It is absolutely not necessary to update existing models with the replacement file referred to by the "~Moved to" file, but maybe I am missing something about (...) (15 years ago, 20-Jan-10, to lugnet.cad)
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