[LSC] Call for votes: standard Unofficial directory

[Travis Cobbs]

I vote yes.

--Travis Cobbs

On 3/6/07, Travis Cobbs <tcobbs at gmail.com> wrote:

>

> 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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