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Re: Organizing the LDraw CD-ROM
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lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw
Date: 
Fri, 11 Feb 2000 03:40:08 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dev, Steve Bliss writes:
An easy-to-use installer doesn't do any good if it won't run on the majority • of
machines.

I haven't been following this thread to closely, but uh, are you considering
machines that are not running Windows.  LdGLite 0.4 is due to be released
real soon and should run pretty well on Linux and the Mac in addition to
Windows.  It's reaching the point where it renders about as well as LdLite,
including shading.

It would be really, really nice if this CD had a Hybrid filesystem readable
from all three Operating systems.  You can make such a beast with the
Mkhybrid utilities, and yes, they run under Windows.

Something else to include would be a live "run from CD" copy of LDRAW and
the parts directories.

Just my 2 cents,

Don



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  Re: Organizing the LDraw CD-ROM
 
Don: (...) There should definitely be binaries for both DOS, Linux, and MacOS where it is possible. Or maybe no DOS and just MS-Windows? How many OS/2 users do we have? (at least one) (...) Isn't that what the ISO-(can't remember the number) file (...) (25 years ago, 11-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)

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  Re: Organizing the LDraw CD-ROM
 
(...) So? In many more cases, the VB runtimes will *not* be installed. And the not-installed machines are more likely to be run by the technically-un-savvy. An easy-to-use installer doesn't do any good if it won't run on the majority of machines. (...) (25 years ago, 8-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)

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