Subject:
|
Re: Backwards Compatibility (Was Calling all Meta-commands)
|
Newsgroups:
|
lugnet.cad.dev
|
Date:
|
Sun, 23 Mar 2003 22:19:14 GMT
|
Viewed:
|
4843 times
|
| |
|
|
In lugnet.cad.dev, Orion Pobursky writes:
> In lugnet.cad.dev, Steve Bliss writes:
> <snip>
> > 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.
>
> <snip>
>
> > 2) Such standard would need to include an outlet for developers to
> > do their own thing, without having to check with some committee
> > somewhere.
>
> The point of setting an 'LDraw.org Compatible' format would be to set the
> framework of LDraw files, not to restrict what can be in LDraw files. If a
> programmer wants to implement thier own extensions, that would OK and if
> said extensions gain widespread use then we could, with the developer's
> permission, fold them into to base spec.
Exactly.
-Tim
|
|
Message is in Reply To:
154 Messages in This Thread:
(Inline display suppressed due to large size. Click Dots below to view.)
- Entire Thread on One Page:
- Nested:
All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:
All | Brief | Compact
|
|
|
|
