[LSC] Suggestion: take history out of part files

[Lars C. Hassing]

The HISTORY tag is a generally useful feature that can also be used by 
users in their model files.
Some of the many LDraw tools might let you view or edit the history in a 
nice GUI.

If we make private handling of history at ldraw.org, we will probably 
never see tools supporting HISTORY,
thus depriving users of this feature.

I agree the change history is unimportant to most library users but they 
probably never look into a DAT file anyway.
For those who do, I think it's nice to see who contributed work to the part.

Can we see an example of bloat?
/Lars


Ross Crawford wrote:
> I agree it increases the risk, but I don't think the change history is 
> something that is all that important (to library users). All we really 
> need to keep with the DAT file is the author, and the person who last 
> changed the file, the rest of the history is unimportant to most users.
>
> ROSCO
>
> Lars C. Hassing wrote:
>> Is the "change log bloat" really that big ?
>>
>> My experience tells that separating information will inevitably 
>> result in information loss.
>>
>> I very much like the idea of keeping history as close to the source 
>> as possible,
>> which means within the DAT files.
>> /Lars
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