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Subject:	Re: Download parts automatically with your preferred modeller?
Newsgroups:	lugnet.cad.dev
Date:	Thu, 27 Feb 2003 16:21:48 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dev, Jacob Sparre Andersen writes: > Willy Tschager wrote: > > is there a difference in downloading files with a browser or a modeller > > That depends on what you mean. The trick of doing it with a specialised > tool is that it easily can identify updated parts and download them as > soon as they become available. Someone recently suggested to me a parts updater DLL we could have for download at LDraw.org, to have one standard parts downloader for modeler programs, and so programmers don't have to re-invent the wheel. I know this would apply to Windows only, but would this be useful?? -Tim

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		Re: Download parts automatically with your preferred modeller?
(...) I don't like making "standards" that only work for products from one company. But nothing prevents somebody from implementing a protocol as a DLL for Windows - or as an Open Source library that anybody can use. But first we should agree on a (...) (21 years ago, 28-Feb-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)

		Re: Download parts automatically with your preferred modeller?
(...) The easiest way would be a list of updates for example a simple text file containing the package names and date of release. This way an application can check when it last downloaded an update and incrementally load newer updates or even (...) (21 years ago, 1-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)

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		Re: Download parts automatically with your preferred modeller?
(...) Basically yes. > how about all this (...) I think there still are some details about the license for the parts library which aren't finalised, but Steve knows more about that. (...) That depends on what you mean. The trick of doing it with a (...) (21 years ago, 27-Feb-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)

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