[LSC] Call for votes: standard Unofficial directory

[Ross Crawford]

I vote No. See the thread for my reasons.

Travis Cobbs 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 <http://ldraw.org> that seemed 

> appropriate.  I suppose we could create a small document and add it to 

> the specifications page.

> 

> --Travis