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Re: Ldraw.organization (was: License revision 1)
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lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw
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Tue, 19 Dec 2000 19:28:43 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, Leonardo Zide wrote:
> I think it would be better to have the FAQ split, there should be a
> smaller FAQ with only questions that general users ask (how can I save a
> .bmp ?) and another with more advanced questions (how to make a type 5
> line ?). A very long FAQ scares people away.
I very much agree with this. It doesn't matter if it's a physical split,
or a simple matter of presentation. As long as normal people don't have to
wade through the geek-gunk.
> I think he's reading the messages... Steve, what do you think about my
> idea for the voting procedure ? Do you want to make the voting more
> integrated with the parts tracker ? I can help with that.
I want to do away with voting, as it works currently.[1] I'll post more in
the other thread I started. Which probably should be on
lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, not lugnet.cad.dev. Oops.
> I've been a bit busy at work but soon I won't have much to do and I'll
> be able to help more. I'll be free until the end of january when I'll
> (probably) move.
I think we'll be able to split the work out a bit.
> > > It's all a matter of deciding the standards we're going to use and
> > > having a place to keep the parts. LeoCAD does something like this, it
> > > checks www.leocad.org/update.txt and tells the user if there's a new
> > > version of the program or library available (but doesn't download and
> > > install).
Having a "current status" file for ldraw.org/library has been discussed,
and I think it's a good idea.
The current parts library is available from www.ldraw.org/library/dat/, but
unfortunately, you have to know what to ask for. There's no index.
Also, I think it would be better to deploy the files using the same
directory structure as the distributed library uses. Instead of putting
all parts and primitives into /dat/, they should be in /parts/ and /p/.
This c/would increase the number of server hits, but would play better with
any licensing document we decide on.
What I'd really like (but is a bit outlandish) is a feed like LUGNET's
avid.cgi. Avid.cgi provides an http-based api for clients to check for new
messages on the news server.
For ldraw.org, such a feed would be updated by the library-server every
time a file was made official. Client programs could check the feed, and
use the information to retrieve updated parts.
> I've been thinking about making individual files available and I think
> that having a cvs server would fit all of our needs. If you don't know
> what cvs is, it's a version control system used very much under Linux
> but it also has a nice GUI for win32 users (www.wincvs.org). All you
> have to do is type "cvs update" and it will update your local copy from
> a remote repository.
I've thought about using CVS as the back-end for the new Parts Tracker, but
I don't have a good enough handle on Linux[2] to know whether adding a
front end to CVS or developing from scratch would be less work.
--
Steve
1) Because currently, voting doesn't work.
2) That is, I know next to nothing about Linux-based web development.
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