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Re: pictures at tracker
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lugnet.cad
Date: 
Fri, 17 May 2002 16:24:10 GMT
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In lugnet.cad, Ross Crawford wrote:
In lugnet.cad, Steve Bliss writes:
In lugnet.cad, Larry Pieniazek wrote:

There are 139 subparts on the tracker now.  I'd say that's a fair
percentage of the 661 total files.

The reason I suggested this is not necessarily volume, but ease - if you limit
images to top-level parts, all you need to do is when a part is uploaded, go
through your dependency list, and re-image all top-level (non sub-) parts that
use it. Removes the need to do anything with "make".

Yeah, but that would be doing the job of make -- reinventing the wheel,
so to speak.  It should be easier to maintain a dependency file for each
unofficial file, and let make figure out what needs to be updated when.

Side thought: Kyle mentioned that dat files should depend on the images
of their subfiles.  That would work, but we could also make the dat
files be dependent on the dependency files of their subfiles. :)

Another place that I think images would be useful is in the "required
files" and "related files" lists on the detailed pages.  In those lists,
images for subparts and primitives would definitely be useful.

I would think the same thing applies here - if a required file needs
certification, it'll need to be downloaded anyway. It should only have an image
if it's a part in itself. Same with related files.

I figure that for any mention of a file, it will be as useful to present
it graphically as textually.

Besides, I don't want to start adding type-based processing the parts
tracker.  That's too much special code.

I think maybe I'd rather see a 3rd list against each part - "top-level parts
using this part" or something, that includes *official* parts as well. I
realise this would be a long list for many primitives, maybe put it on a
separte page.

Interesting thought.  I'll work on that.

Steve



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  RE: pictures at tracker
 
(...) In order for make to process stuff properly, I'll need to tell it the order in which directories shold be searched for dependent files because that information is not in the DAT file itself. We need to build different graphic images (and (...) (22 years ago, 17-May-02, to lugnet.cad)
  Re: pictures at tracker
 
(...) But we already know exactly when an image needs updating! Using make, you still have to decide when to execute the make command, I'm saying the obvious time to do it is when a file is submitted (update it's image and all those which depend on (...) (22 years ago, 18-May-02, to lugnet.cad)

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  Re: pictures at tracker
 
(...) The reason I suggested this is not necessarily volume, but ease - if you limit images to top-level parts, all you need to do is when a part is uploaded, go through your dependency list, and re-image all top-level (non sub-) parts that use it. (...) (22 years ago, 16-May-02, to lugnet.cad)

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