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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: 
Tue, 1 May 2001 21:22:29 GMT
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HMM a minor idea. group all Unofficial parts in "Unofficial" group like
"brick" and "plate" type of group.

--

And they said 'Computers will never be in general use'


"Steve Bliss" <steve.bliss@home.com> wrote in message
news:p61uetc27fg7opir90ti5ea3skc73ec63o@4ax.com...
In lugnet.cad.dev, Tim Courtney wrote:

"Chris Dee" <chris_w_dee@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:GCnMwn.Axw@lugnet.com...
In lugnet.cad.dev, Fredrik Glöckner writes:
"Sproaticus" <jsproat@io.com> writes:

Give me unofficial parts, I don't care.

I don't think that unofficial parts should be published from LDraw.


Agree - unofficial means they may change - and if the change is to the • origin
or orientation then users will get (even more) upset.

Disagree.

I think Chris is right.  It will be challenging to disclaim an unofficial
update in a way that nobody will get upset later.  When we do officialize
the pieces, there will be orientation changes, and different part numbers
with no forwarding addresses.  Models built on unofficial parts are likely
to break.

There's also the issue of being able to later clean up the pollution from
an unofficial update.  It would be easy to enough for people to use their
Windows Find to locate files containing the word 'unofficial', and delete
those files, but that would imply that we reviewed all the files before
releasing them, to make sure they all have the "unofficial element" line.
And reviewing all the files before an official release is something we're
trying to avoid, right?

Steve



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  Re: We need an update NOW (Was: Parts Update?)
 
(...) That's a good idea, but it requires editing *all* of the files to be released. The idea of an unofficial release is that it's quick'n'dirty - as little work as possible. Processing a large number files, even if it is just a minor change, takes (...) (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?)
 
(...) I think Chris is right. It will be challenging to disclaim an unofficial update in a way that nobody will get upset later. When we do officialize the pieces, there will be orientation changes, and different part numbers with no forwarding (...) (24 years ago, 1-May-01, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)

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