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Re: Questions on Stickers and Certification
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lugnet.cad.dev
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Fri, 22 Feb 2002 22:52:24 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dev, Steve Bliss writes:
> In lugnet.cad.dev, Carsten Schmitz wrote:
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> > I see too that a few reviewers are scared of parts with subparts. But just
> > these parts are really important to review and get on their way ...and for
> > people who made a complicated part its not very motivating to wait for a
> > year to get a parts released. At least that doesnt encourage them to make
> > more parts.
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> I think this is an important point. Subfiles are *very* useful tools
> for modeling parts, but we should use them with restraint. I will
> frequently model a part using multiple subfiles, but then I will inline
> all the code into a single file before submitting the part.
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> Steve
Reviewers should feel able to make comments like "subpart unnecessary - I would
prefer these to be inlined".
From an authors perspective, I have a preference to keep things modularised -
that way a correction to a symetrical region of the part is easier to do,
without me needing to keep separate modularised ("source"), and monolithic
("compiled") versions of the part files.
There are two definite needs for subparts :
1) dithered colour patterns due to an LDraw limitation
2) shells for frequently patterned parts (eg 973s01)
Beyond these, maybe the criterion should be re-usability rather then size.
For example, the two subparts for 2039, (containing 82 and 135 lines and each
used 6 times in the main part) reduce the size of that part from ~95k to 29K.
But these subparts probably have zero reusability, so maybe should have been
inlined.
On the other hand the stripe section form the old flags (777s01) whilst only 7
lines, should be re-usable in various flags, so may have greater justification
for its separation. Here is where it becomes tricky, because that subpart is at
the moment only used in one part, but based the authors knowledge is has _the
potential_ for re-use.
Chris
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