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Travis Cobbs wrote:
> In lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, Jacob Sparre Andersen writes:
> > Sproaticus wrote:
> >
> > > This is a very good question, and is even more important
> > > with the migration to a single filename suffix (.LDR).
> >
> > MPD files should not be named ".ldr" (or ".dat")!
>
> I wasn't here for the .ldr extension discussions, so
> this may well have already been covered, but why not
> ".ldr"?
Because we ought to differentiate between files that can be
processed directly by LDraw, and those which have to be
filtered through another tool (a MPD splitter) before LDraw
can render them.
If we decide to scrap LDraw compatibility, this is of course
a different matter.
Also, if we want to maintain the LDraw compatibility of MPD
files, the files they contain really should have names,
which can exist on a DOS file system.
And one further consequence of maintaining LDraw
compatibility is that the meaning of a MPD file must be
equivalent to unpacking/splitting it first and then
rendering the first file in it with LDraw. Which means that
one MPD file can not refer to another MPD file.
Play well,
Jacob
--
LEGO Purists' Fighter (building instructions):
http://jacob.sparre.dk/LEGO/Transport/Fly/Purists_fighter/
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| (...) These are good points. Perhaps we should define the spec with two levels: "strict MPD" and "expanded MPD". Strict MPD would require everything necessary to render files with ldraw: - All names on FILE statements follow the DOS filenaming (...) (22 years ago, 6-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.cad.dev) !
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| (...) I'd like to weigh in on this issue. I like using the .ldr extension for everything. I also like being able to refer to another MPD file (with the .ldr extension) from within an MPD file. I also like being able to call the the first subfile the (...) (22 years ago, 8-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| (...) I wasn't here for the .ldr extension discussions, so this may well have already been covered, but why not ".ldr"? It seems to me that any tool with built-in support for the .ldr extension should also support the MPD format. And the MPD format (...) (22 years ago, 6-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.cad.dev)
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