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Re: Calling all Meta-commands
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lugnet.cad.dev
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Fri, 14 Mar 2003 18:49:18 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dev, Kevin Clague writes:
> Would the authors of LDraw compatible applications please list the
> meta-commands they have created? I will compile the list of applications and
> the meta-commands they define.
One thing that I think would help reduce namespace pollution is if everyone
did what LTrax did... prefix the command with the app name for uniqueness.
Not a perfect solution, of course.
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Message has 3 Replies:
 | | Re: Calling all Meta-commands
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| (...) except that if you do that, it discourages cross-tool commands. If I'm writing FooCAD, and I want to implement one of the LTrax commands, should I make a new command '0 FooCad xxxx'? should I secretly support the '0 LTrax xxxx'? I'm not sure (...) (22 years ago, 14-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
| | | Re: Calling all Meta-commands
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| One approach to namespace management is to have format the commands like so: 0 MODULENAME COMMAND blah Authors would ask for a unique MODULENAME string to use, and prefix that in front of any "experimental" commands. For example, say I want to (...) (22 years ago, 18-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
| | | Re: Calling all Meta-commands
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| (...) I support that (general) guideline. The only real difficulty is if the meta-command becomes generally accepted, and is 'promoted' to being an accepted standard. We'd either want a different prefix for org standards, or no prefix. Either way (...) (22 years ago, 22-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Calling all Meta-commands
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| Hi All, As long as we're updating documentation, I'd like to create a list of the known meta-commands. The process for defining new meta-commands is completely unregulated, which is fine, but as a newcomer to LDRAW compatible CAD tools development, (...) (22 years ago, 14-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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