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RE: Challenge/Request for the CAD gurus
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lugnet.cad
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Sat, 10 Nov 2001 18:57:13 GMT
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<bram@po.cwruIHATESPAM.edu>
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Anders Isaksson writes:
> > The installer could be designed to download the checked
> > components on the fly instead of all at once.
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> I 'hate' this kind of installation. Beeing on an expensive
> modem line (where each dial up incurs an extra cost), I
> prefer downloading a large file in one piece, or getting a
> friend with better net access download and make a CD. But
> that's just me...
Well, I hate them too actually, but considering that there are quite a
few utilities that we might not include in Typical but would include in
Complete, it might be useful, even/especially for people with slow
connections. Better still would be to offer a choice of downloads. (I
think Steve tried this once for LDAO)
--Bram
Bram Lambrecht
bram@cwru.edu
www.bldesign.org
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| Bram has hit it squarely, as has Jake. Put the two voices together and you get three main ideas... Ldraw should be: 1. Simple to Download 2. Simple to install 3. Simple to understand (i.e. DOCUMENTATION) I would pull back from Jake's request to the (...) (23 years ago, 11-Nov-01, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Challenge/Request for the CAD gurus
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| "Bram Lambrecht" <bram@cwru.edu> skrev i meddelandet news:000001c16955$44...1681@bl... (...) Hasn't this been discussed before? Wasn't there a 'problem' with having to use the original LDRAW download? Perhaps the license discussions are finished (...) (23 years ago, 10-Nov-01, to lugnet.cad)
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