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Re: Use of arbitrary elements with LSynth
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Date: 
Tue, 22 Apr 2003 17:54:18 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dev, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> In lugnet.cad.dev, Don Heyse writes:
> > But since you've made the source for lsynth available, there's no reason
> > why Larry
> 
> Except for time/skill/interest. (mostly time)

If I recall, it was Kevin's lack of time that prompted him to open up
the lsynth code and solicit your help.  (I think he may have mentioned
you specifically ;)

Also, I imagine you could argue that contributing to lsynth satisfies
requirement 3 of the "Requirements for Membership" section of the
recently posted "LDraw.org Standards Committee (LSC) Draft Proposal":

  Authored a software program that is compliant with either the
  LDraw 0.2.7 spec or another spec published by the LSC

After which I'm sure you'd be a shoe-in for the upcoming elections...

> > couldn't attempt to add the string part to the code himself
> > and then submit the patches to you for official approval.  Right?  Isn't
> > that the whole point of opening up the source code?
> 
> I'm thinking that just allowing for a level of indirection might do the
> trick. If you added a way to just specify what part you wanted used for the
> stringing together, and allowed it to be used instead of one of the defined
> types, that might do the trick. Haven't actually looked at the code to see
> if that makes sense or not.

Why not take a peek then?

  http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/lsynth/lsynth/lsynth/

Enjoy,

Don



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(...) Except for time/skill/interest. (mostly time) (...) I'm thinking that just allowing for a level of indirection might do the trick. If you added a way to just specify what part you wanted used for the stringing together, and allowed it to be (...) (24 years ago, 22-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)

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