[LSC] Call for votes: standard Unofficial directory

[Travis Cobbs]

I'm going on the assumption that the other members of this committee have
followed the LUGNET thread about standardizing an Unofficial directory
starting here:

http://news.lugnet.com/cad/dev/mac/?n=768

If you haven't followed that thread, you should probably read the sub-tree
of the thread linked above, and I apologize for prematurely placing a call
for votes.  Feel free to chime in here with discussion, and I'll postpone
this call for votes.

--- Start of Proposal ---

A directory named Unofficial in the user's LDraw directory shall be the
standard location for programs to look for (and optionally download to)
unofficial parts.  The Unofficial directory will have parts and p
sub-directories, and these will mirror the structure of the standard parts
and p directories.

--- End of Proposal ---

It should be noted that Unofficial does not follow the 8.3 naming convention
that up until now has been used for all officially sanctioned LDraw files
and directories.  It is my opinion (and this seems to be shared by the
people posting to the thread above) that this is not a problem, since any
program supporting this directory will be a current program and as such
won't have any problem dealing with long filenames.

If we do ratify this, I'm not entirely sure where to put it.  I couldn't
find any existing documents on ldraw.org that seemed appropriate.  I suppose
we could create a small document and add it to the specifications page.

--Travis
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