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Re: LDView 3.1 on Mac OS X!
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lugnet.cad.dev.mac
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Sat, 3 Mar 2007 17:41:06 GMT
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Next, we have the problem that even if a program were made to tell you which
parts are official and which aren’t, it wouldn’t be the natural thing for
people to use. People will tend to want to use their standard file browser,
not some LDraw-aware program (which incidentally doesn’t even exist right
now).
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Well that’s the part I disagree with. Everyone is different, and making
assumptions about what people will want to use is always bad for program
developers. The choice should be the user’s, not the programmer’s.
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As a user (and a programmer; though I’ve yet to do any work on LDView), I prefer
the way Travis is doing things. Not that that makes it right; I’m just saying
that you can’t (and shouldn’t) lump the users and the programmers into two
competing camps (and then try to represent either one) ;-)
I’m all for extra options in LDView regarding this feature (and I have no doubt
that Travis will provide quite a few), but I’d vote that his current operation
be the default rather than vice-versa.
It’s easy to combine unofficial files and official into one repository if they
arrive separated. Quite a bit more difficult to go the other way round.
-- joshua
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| (...) Absolutely. Before I started using LDView and realized that Bricksmith could also use its Unofficial folder, any and all unofficial files I downloaded just got dumped in parts. To chime in on the filename length issue, my LDraw folder got real (...) (18 years ago, 3-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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| (...) Indeed. (...) Well that's the part I disagree with. Everyone is different, and making assumptions about what people will want to use is always bad for program developers. The choice should be the user's, not the programmer's. (...) That may be (...) (18 years ago, 2-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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