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Re: Parts for LDraw or parts for POV-Ray?
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lugnet.cad.dev
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Sun, 15 Aug 1999 13:45:29 GMT
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Joshua Delahunty wrote:
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> IIRC (this would be from e-mail he sent me that I almost certainly no
> longer have,
> and is stuff I know because I was making an attempt to port it to a
> Windows version):
You are probably more correct than me, I've never been able to talk to
Carsten and I've never been able to use BriCad, Unix was very hard to
install at that time and I wasn't a programmer (didn't knew much about
computers).
> - The dispute was over TLG's rights to "studded trade dress" (my take on
> it was that his output looked TOO close to instructions -- especially
> his solid colored stud sides)
You're right, I remember that there was something related to the stud
trade dress (this was discussed a long time ago in the L-CAD list). It's
good to know that TLG have changed their mind and don't care about what
we do.
> - I asked him at that point if I could still get the BriCAD 0.75 sources
> from him,
> but he said he no longer had them; though I would have been welcome to
> them.
> I don't have btopia sources either.
If I remember correctly, the sources where available at his page
(before he removed it) but I'm not sure.
> - The version most of us knew (0.75 +/-) ran under Linux, using
> X-Windows
> - The app was really cool, the first of its kind, and looked really
> really
> nice; but Carsten was a student when he wrote it, so it had some
> learning-curve
> "features"
Are there any professional developers writing this kind of
applications here ? I'm not even a computer science student so I can be
excused for having some many bugs. :)
> - Take the previous three points, combine them with the facts that we
> wanted the source to compile to multiple platforms and have identical
> features, and it went into high flux when he decided to rearchitect
> it into btopia, and you can imagine that the Windows version never
> really got anywhere. I was waiting for a stable release of btopia
> that never came, and it didn't seem worth it once he quit the
> project since I didn't like the way btopia had changed (he actually
> pulled some features out to redo them, and they never got added
> back).
It's not difficult to have all features work the same way in multiple
platforms, you only need to plan everything before you start. From my
personal experience, removing features to redo them later is not a good
idea, you end up choosing the ones you don't like to write and keep
doing other stuff instead. :)
Leonardo
PS: It's good to know you're back, I didn't care about all this JW talk
until I knew you left the group.
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