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Re: More information on LEGO Digital Designer and other things
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lugnet.cad, lugnet.lego.direct
Date: 
Mon, 5 May 2003 02:16:05 GMT
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In lugnet.cad, Matthew Miller writes:
> Jake McKee <jacob.mckee@america.lego.com> wrote:
> > Must be late in the day... I didn't follow what you are asking. Can you
> > point me to the info you are referring to, or perhaps rephrase your
> > question?
> 
> Sure. This message: <http://news.lugnet.com/cad/?n=9898>. Todd says:
> 
>  OK, sounds like, at least initially, the SDK source would only go to a few
>  people for the express purpose of porting the SDK to other platforms.  If
>  it's the case that LEGO doesn't want the whole world to have access to the
>  SDK, then I'm curious what it means for ports to non-compiled languages
>  like Perl and Python.
> 
> And your response is:
> 
>  Most likely. As you have probably seen from LD, we want to get these kinds
>  of things out to as many as we can. But we may have to control that
>  growth, to some extent. Nothing has been decided yet, and I hate to keep
>  referring back to legal issues, but ....
> 
> Did your "most likely" only mean that it'd be initially that way and that
> source would be released to the community at large at a later point? Maybe
> I'm overreacting. :)

Well, to me the point is to get out to as many people as possible. However,
as I have stated a number of times, we are still early in the process and
have a great many questions to answer. There are legal and business issues
like you wouldn't imagine swirling around this.

I wish I had the ability to answer every question right now, but since we
are still working on this, I can't. As soon as I know more, you will know more.

Hang in there, we'll get there. The point of this effort is to help out, not
make you folks upset!

Jake

---
Jake McKee
Community Development Manager - B.I. Portal
http://www.bricksonthebrain.com/instructions



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  Re: More information on LEGO Digital Designer and other things
 
(...) Actually, I *can* imagine. I work at a large institution and have to deal with this sort of thing all the time. :) But I'm hopeful, as many companies have gone through those legal and business issues before and come out on the right side. (...) (23 years ago, 5-May-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.lego.direct)
  Perl
 
(...) In the discusion about LTX, Perl has been mentioned. How would you envsion using Perl in the LEGO CAD (or other LEGO) environment? I have been using Perl for serveral years at work (doing image processing) and might do some hobby programming. (...) (23 years ago, 3-Jun-03, to lugnet.cad)

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  Re: More information on LEGO Digital Designer and other things
 
(...) Sure. This message: (URL). Todd says: OK, sounds like, at least initially, the SDK source would only go to a few people for the express purpose of porting the SDK to other platforms. If it's the case that LEGO doesn't want the whole world to (...) (23 years ago, 5-May-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.lego.direct)

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