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Re: Who Uses Original LDraw? (Was: ... Rocket Launch Pattern)
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Sun, 12 Dec 2004 22:19:14 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dat.parts, James Mastros wrote:
Why not put out a 0.28, with the more trivial restrictions,
this amongst them, removed? If that's impossible for legal
reasons, will somebody step up to the bat, and write a replacement?

Why have a replacement at all?  The file format stands by itself.  There's no
reference complier for C code, no reference viewer for the PNG format, and no
reference CAD program for the DXF format, why should there be one for the LDraw
system?

-Orion



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  Re: Who Uses Original LDraw? (Was: ... Rocket Launch Pattern)
 
(...) Excellent point. However there are a lot of (in some ways incompatible) dialects of C. There ARE reference implementations for things like all the Java components (the javac compiler, the java jvm, the jms messaging, jca, the rmi server, etc (...) (20 years ago, 13-Dec-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)

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  Re: Who Uses Original LDraw? (Was: ... Rocket Launch Pattern)
 
(...) IIRC, the limit was only on the size of the root directory -- but I could well be wrong. I think there are two separate, and related, questions here: Do we want to keep supporting DOS as a platform? Do we want to keep supporting LDraw 0.27? (...) (20 years ago, 12-Dec-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)

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