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Re: Backwards Compatibility (Was Calling all Meta-commands)
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lugnet.cad.dev
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Sat, 22 Mar 2003 14:09:33 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dev, Tim Courtney wrote:
> In lugnet.cad.dev, Steve Bliss writes:
> > In lugnet.cad.dev, Paul Gyugyi wrote:
> >
> > > In lugnet.cad.dev, Steve Bliss writes:
> > > > > About the only thing ldraw.org could[1] do is to start an 'LDraw.org
> > > > Compatible' program, where various programs could label themselves as LDraw
> > > > compliant, if they follow the standards.[2] But that sounds too
> > > > Mickey-Mouse to be worth doing, IMO.
> >
> > > But, isn't that more-or-less exactly what happens with the parts library?
> >
> > Not really. The important thing with the parts library is that files are
> > accepted and added the distribution file. We don't even have a '0
> > Official' any more - now it's '0 LDRAW_ORG'.
> >
> > I was envisioning the 'LDraw.org Compatible' program to be a set of
> > verbiage and site icon images, identifying a program as following the
> > standards laid out by LDraw.org. 'Mickey Mouse' was probably a harsh label
> > to use; I meant that such a program wouldn't be worth doing if our main
> > intent was to get developers to produce LDraw-compatible programs.
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> LDraw compatible, or LDraw.org compatible? ;-)
>
> You made a distinction before -- are you using the same metric now as well?
> Just curious.
Sorry, 'LDraw.org-compatible programs'. Which is poor terminology, I
think.
Steve
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