[LSC] Rejected: standard Unofficial directory

[Ross Crawford]

I have no strong feeling either way. Rejected ideas may well be 
revisited by future teams with different results.

Maybe we should vote on it???? (Just kidding! I think it's fine!)

ROSCO

Travis Cobbs wrote:

> I updated the ldraw.org <http://ldraw.org> Standards Comittee page here:

> 

> http://www.ldraw.org/article/399

> 

> I don't know if we want this recorded there or not.  The introductory 

> text originally said "agreed on".  I changed it to "voted on" in order 

> to allow publication of our rejected proposals as well as our accepted 

> ones.

> 

> If anyone thinks that we should only report positive progress there, I 

> don't really have a strong opinion either way.  Feel free to remove the 

> latest entry, reword it back to "agreed on", and fix the "Last updated" 

> text.

> 

> --Travis

> 

> On 3/7/07, *Travis Cobbs* <tcobbs at gmail.com <mailto:tcobbs at gmail.com>> 

> wrote:

> 

>     Guy, you can vote or simply express your opinion on the issue if you

>     want, but since we now have 3 no votes, I'm calling this one rejected.

> 

>     --Travis

> 

>     On 3/7/07, * Lars C. Hassing* <lars at hassings.dk

>     <mailto:lars at hassings.dk>> wrote:

> 

>         Travis Cobbs wrote:

>          > --- 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 ---

> 

>         I vote NO.

> 

>         Most users will have a hard time understanding why

>         only some programs can find the parts they are using in their model.

> 

>         It may be nice to keep unofficial parts in a separate directory

>         but you get the same functionality if you put them into PARTS.

>         And when officially released they will be overwritten by the

>         official files.

> 

>         Newer programs can read the headers of the parts and present

>         them to the users

>         in a virtual Unofficial folder even though they physically came

>         from PARTS.

>         /Lars

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