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Re: LDraw part library structure
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Date: 
Thu, 15 Apr 1999 07:42:03 GMT
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On Thu, 15 Apr 1999 03:11:25 GMT, Joshua Delahunty
<dulcaoin@alumni.cse.ucsc.edu> wrote:

> Terry K wrote:
> 
> > But seriously, I would like to express my thanks to Joshua Delahunty for all
> > his brainstorming and hard work on formulating these standards. His ideas for
> > using underscore categories and the xxxxCyy formatting for composites was
> > pivotal.   Although initially, I had my doubts.
> 
> Initially, ha!  (I had to hit him with a wiffle bat repeatedly, folks)
> <g>

I'm getting a mental image here... I'm holding Terry by the shoulders, and
Joshua's using the bat.  Seriously, Terry worked very hard to make this
arrangement/agreement come about.  I'm looking forward to seeing the
results in up-coming parts updates.

> > And I would also like to thank Steve Bliss for his opinions and inputs through
> > all this.   Steve and Joshua were pretty much at polar opposites on just about
> > every subject in this debate.  But somehow we all managed to finally give a
> > little here and there and compromise out a solution.  Pretty tough going at
> > times, with me in the middle, vacillating between sides.
> 
> Steve was very tough, and we each made the other think very hard about
> this.  I'm glad he was there to balance the issues.  It was really his
> stance on visible part elements that pushed me to produce the rather
> elegant (and orthogonal) xxxxCxx solution.

The players in this game (so to speak) balanced out very well.  A certain
amount of mutual respect certainly helped.

Steve



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  Re: LDraw part library structure
 
(...) You're welcome, Terry. A labor of love, it was. <big snip> (...) Don't even worry about this, Terry. Either we're going to have a 5-digit code for the entire assembly that we can use, or we're going to know the 4-digit codes even if they're (...) (27 years ago, 15-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)

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