[LSC] File Format Restrictions for Official Parts

[William Howard]

Even if that means removing pov-ray code - which has been decided by the PT 
Admins that it can (and should) stay?

W

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Orion Pobursky" <orion at ldraw.org>
To: "LDraw Standards Committee" <lsc at ldraw.org>
Sent: Friday, November 16, 2007 4:54 PM
Subject: Re: [LSC] File Format Restrictions for Official Parts



> William Howard wrote:

>> The official stance is given here http://www.ldraw.org/Article479.html - 

>> which only says that it is undesirable and not forbidden.

>>

>> Old files do matter, as old files quite frequently come back onto the 

>> tracker.  Any parts library specification needs to allow for pre-existing 

>> files that contain pov-ray code (one such part is the skelton minifig 

>> head), so we need a clause which says that parts already containing such 

>> statements are allowed to keep them, but new parts are not allowed to 

>> include them.  I shall add something to that effect.

>

> My stance on already official files not conforming to our set restrictions 

> is that they don't need to be fixed right away. However, if they rotate 

> onto the PT for any reason then they need to been fixed.

>

> -Orion

>

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