[LSC] Rejected: standard Unofficial directory

[William Howard]

I think the page should record what we decided, not just what we agreed on - 
so I say leave it as it is


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ross Crawford" <ross.crawford at gmail.com>
To: "LDraw Standards Committee" <lsc at ldraw.org>
Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2007 8:55 PM
Subject: Re: [LSC] Rejected: standard Unofficial directory



>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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