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Re: We need an update NOW (Was: Parts Update?)
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lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw
Date: 
Mon, 30 Apr 2001 23:47:59 GMT
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just put them out there for download ...
It's the simplest in terms of work on the maintainer's end, and
enforces a certain level of competency on the end-user's part.

Ummmm.... Isn't that what the lugnet.cad.dat.parts newsgroup (or Tore's temp
parts tracker) is for?  You go looking for the part you want and install it.
That's what I've been doing.  What I wanted when I asked my original
question (which has now gone way beyong the quasi-polite questioning that I
started) was an official update so that I could install it on many different
computers easily without having to manually do it.

-Orion
(This is what I get for coming out of lurk mode)



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  Re: We need an update NOW (Was: Parts Update?)
 
(...) Orion, you bring up a great idea that could solve the problem in the interum. Take all the parts you can find on Tore's tracker and in the parts newsgroup, put them in a self extracting archive or .zip file, and post the file somewhere like (...) (24 years ago, 1-May-01, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)

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  Re: We need an update NOW (Was: Parts Update?)
 
(...) The bugger here is that we could play what-if with the schedule all year long. I won't do that. (...) Why not? Aren't the users why the whole LDraw thing happens, anyway? (...) I would, but only to get it done my way -- quick & cheap & dirty. (...) (24 years ago, 30-Apr-01, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)

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