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Re: Automatic download of unofficial parts in LDView
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lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw
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Sun, 14 May 2006 18:27:13 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, Damien Guichard wrote:
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It’s good to know you still think about adding even more features to LDView.
At some feature-complete point many programmers prefer to switch to a newer
thus more exiting development rather than cherrish and grow the baby.
However, in my humble opinion the whole point in having official/unofficial
distinction is only official parts are supported. By supporting unofficial
parts in a user-transparent way the risk is that you blurr this essential
distinction. The official and recommended way to include an unofficial part
is to include it as a subpart because it’s the only way to guarantee
model-file continuity. The viewer tool is a wrong place to solve a problem
that wouldn’t exist if the modeller tool was correctly used.
(Just my 2 cents)
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I can definitely see where you’re coming from, and there’s certainly a danger
that having a viewer transparently support unofficial parts will encourage their
use without being included inside the MPD file. Having said that, I see a whole
lot of people using unofficial parts in their models without including them.
The fact is that parts generally take so long to become official that parts in
the part tracker have become heavily relied on by people.
The goal of LDView is to be as fast, powerful, and easy to use as possible. I
see this as a significant usability improvement, given the current prevalence of
unofficial part usage. I definitely think that LDView should produce a warning
for every unofficial file used. In fact, this is probably a good idea, whether
or not this new feature is included. I could make it do so any time LDView sees
the unofficial header comment in a file that’s not included in an MPD, it would
produce a warning. And any time it reads a file from the LDraw p or parts
directory without an official header comment, it could also produce a warning.
--Travis
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