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Subject: 
Re: Part naming/organization [was: Re: More inventories on peeron.com!]
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lugnet.db.inv, lugnet.db.brictionary
Date: 
Fri, 29 Jun 2001 20:53:22 GMT
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In lugnet.db.inv, Jennifer L. Boger writes:
> > And I must mention that, although it is in some ways convenient to be able
> > to
> > find pieces by theme, things get messy when themes are used in the
> > hierarchy.
> > For example, consider the Castle section of Partsref, and these "Castle *"
> > parts.  There are parts that would make more sense to be found under
> > Minifig>Weapon> like Castle Sword[1] or Castle Pike[2]; there are Vehicle
> > Elments (wheels); there are Panels (castle walls); there's the Castle
> > Goblet,
> > which has appeared in many Town sets. . .
> 
> I'll let Steve fight his own battle - but I will point out that partref
> uses %100 ldraw names... :)

Are you letting me fight my own battles, or throwing me to the wolves?  ;)

Partsref using LDraw names is no defense for me...

> Tell me about it.  Our current stance on peeron is that we won't create
> new names for pieces that already have names via ldraw/partsref... we'll
> just have to convince someone that there's no such thing as a
> "cantenary" and one day it'll get fixed :)

And my stance is that partsref uses the data from ldraw.

My advantage is that when LDraw changes, it's very easy to update partsref.
I don't know if changing Peeron is going to be as easy.

Steve



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  Re: Part naming/organization [was: Re: More inventories on peeron.com!]
 
(...) I'll let Steve fight his own battle - but I will point out that partref uses %100 ldraw names... :) (...) Tell me about it. Our current stance on peeron is that we won't create new names for pieces that already have names via ldraw/partsref... (...) (25 years ago, 29-Jun-01, to lugnet.db.inv, lugnet.db.brictionary)

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