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Re: Getting rif off the 8.3 nomenclature???
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lugnet.cad.dat.parts
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Wed, 28 Mar 2007 15:24:51 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dat.parts, Don Heyse wrote:
> In lugnet.cad.dat.parts, Kevin L. Clague wrote:
> > ... you are talking about one of the most
> > annoying issues in programming: backward compatibility.
> >
> > I know that given the way LPub and LSynth are written and the
> > language libraries used, switching away from the 8.3 limitation
> > represents a significant amount of work.
> >
> > Your previous post presents a good argument for getting away from
> > 8.3 based on LEGO SKU number lengths combined with LDraw naming
> > conventions. I can see the value in it. Arguments like that can
> > be influential.
>
> Yeah, but there's always another way. One that preserves the
> precious backwards compatibility. In this case you could make
> more subdirectories in the official library. Like the LDRAW/P/48
> directory that was created to avoid name conflicts between high
> and low resolution primitives. (Just tossing that into the mix
> for consideration.)
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> Have fun,
>
> Don
Well I've just spent some time on another way. You can make a new version of
mklist that works as follows: scan through the parts, if a filename is long then
make a new copy of the file with a standardised short file name (possible
assigned in a meta) and use the short name for PARTS.LST and the long name for
PARTSLONGNAMES.LST, otherwise add the part to both lists.
That way old software will still run although some of the parts names will be a
bit non-standard but new software can have a decent name.
Tim
PS. Some Perl code to do what I describe in a very sketch manner
http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/timgould/temp/mklistlong.pl
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| (...) That's an interesting approach, but I don't know if it'll work for the subpart files that started this thread. I think mklist only handles files in the PARTS directory. The subpart filenames would be embedded in the part files that use them, (...) (18 years ago, 28-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: Getting rif off the 8.3 nomenclature???
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| (...) Yeah, but there's always another way. One that preserves the precious backwards compatibility. In this case you could make more subdirectories in the official library. Like the LDRAW/P/48 directory that was created to avoid name conflicts (...) (18 years ago, 28-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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