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Re: Calling all Meta-commands
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lugnet.cad.dev
Date: 
Fri, 14 Mar 2003 23:48:54 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dev, Larry Pieniazek writes:

[...]

> Now, who owns the defintion of what SYNTH does? You? Them? Both of you
> jointly? No one? Blech.
> 
> We either need a standards body to control the commands and hand them out
> judiciously(1), or we need to use prefixes (program names or whatever)(2) so
> we don't step on each other, or we need to live with the chaos that will
> ensue from doing neither of the above.

I agree with the route of a standards body to control (officially adopted)
meta-commands. The second option is just a fix, and the third option is
unacceptable, especially if we want to see more people use these tools and
develop for the LDraw format.

> If there are other choices I'm not sure what they are but I'm open to
> hearing about them.

-Tim



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