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Re: Minimalist LDraw on floppy?
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lugnet.cad
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Tue, 7 Mar 2000 07:06:21 GMT
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I think this is a great idea. I was thinking about a similar thing, where
MLCad would load full updates from the internet, and install it onto the
machine.
However searching unknown parts on the internet is a very good idea too, but
would require (for easiest operation) that we have one dedicated download-
side, where we can download every single file.
Also an automatic part-update would be possible, if we add a certain meta-
command to the parts which give it a version, so a program could look on the
internet for a list of part-versions, compare it with the loaded parts and
download newer or totaly new parts.
From the programming point of view it's an easy task for MLCad, but I don't
know about the others.
Michael
In lugnet.cad, Jeremy H. Sproat writes:
> ...With 13 Mb of parts files, yeah right. Bummer. :-(
>
> However, it would be really really really cool if LDLite, MLCad, etc. would
> load parts from a URL as needed. In my view, agreeing upon a transmission
> protocol for this is probably the highest priority for renderer authors right
> now, perhaps next to backface culling. It couldn't be that much more work;
> you'd basically be tacking a URL onto the search path and the actual download
> could be a simple HTTP GET.
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> And this time I can contribute. I'm willing to put time into writing the
> download code.
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> Yay? Nay? Comments?
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> Another thought on this: how about giving an option for saving the downloaded
> parts in LDRAW/P or LDRAW/PARTS (or in subdirs as needed), to help speed up
> future renderings using the same parts. With this, getting updates from the
> parts library would be incredibly simple for the end-user. (But perhaps not
> so simple for the maintainers of the download area.) Then again, new
> downloaded parts would need a way of getting into the user's PARTS.LST
> file... But on the gripping hand, PARTS.LST is only used for browsing for
> parts in LEdit, and is largely unnecessary if you're using Steve's awesome
> partsref, and can always be regenerated anyway.
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> Cheers,
> - jsproat
>
> --
> Jeremy H. Sproat <jsproat@io.com> ~~~ http://www.io.com/~jsproat/
> Card-carrying member of the Star-Bellied Sneech Preservation Society
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 | | Re: Minimalist LDraw on floppy?
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| (...) There is already a part-version comment in the L-CAD part files. It's the line in the header which says "Official LCad update". This line will have a release number on the end, such as "99-06". If a file has no "Official LCad update" line, the (...) (25 years ago, 7-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Minimalist LDraw on floppy?
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| ...With 13 Mb of parts files, yeah right. Bummer. :-( However, it would be really really really cool if LDLite, MLCad, etc. would load parts from a URL as needed. In my view, agreeing upon a transmission protocol for this is probably the highest (...) (25 years ago, 6-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad)
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