LPub and friends are re-maintained on github
2015-06-25, 14:37 (This post was last modified: 2015-06-27, 11:20 by Hazen Babcock.)
2015-06-25, 14:37 (This post was last modified: 2015-06-27, 11:20 by Hazen Babcock.)
Hello everybody.
You probably know that the situation about LPub and other SW needed for LDraw instructions creation is not optimal. One needs to make several utilities to cooperate to be able to do the full work from the idea through LDraw model to final PDF with instructions: the editor, renderers, LPub... And some of those utilities are no longer maintained. The situation is little bit worse on Linux because of some Linux-specific issues (like the fact Linux filesystems are case-sensitive).
I'm glad I can announce the result of our effort to help in this area: we created a github group to collect all SW needed to create the instructions using LPub (in the end). We imported the history of original projects (CVS or SVN), we continue to merge with upstream if it is alive (like for LeoCAD) and, thanks to github, we open a chance for everybody to cooperate: build, test, improve, send patches back. You do not need any special permission like in CVS/sourceforge times! Let's join us!
https://github.com/ldraw-linux
As you can see it is named ldraw-linux. This may confuse somebody so I clearly say at the beginning: the project started to make those utilities working on Linux, hence the name. But all our patches are Windows-compatible and the only limitation is that we do not have any machine and knowledge to test Windows builds now. Such a help is really appreciated - send me a PM or say here in this thread!
In short: our goal is: join our forces together and make this not only working but even improved!
At the end, I want to thank SUSE company for the hackweek: this allows us to work on any opensource project at work, during that week. And you can see there are really many projects people work on
You probably know that the situation about LPub and other SW needed for LDraw instructions creation is not optimal. One needs to make several utilities to cooperate to be able to do the full work from the idea through LDraw model to final PDF with instructions: the editor, renderers, LPub... And some of those utilities are no longer maintained. The situation is little bit worse on Linux because of some Linux-specific issues (like the fact Linux filesystems are case-sensitive).
I'm glad I can announce the result of our effort to help in this area: we created a github group to collect all SW needed to create the instructions using LPub (in the end). We imported the history of original projects (CVS or SVN), we continue to merge with upstream if it is alive (like for LeoCAD) and, thanks to github, we open a chance for everybody to cooperate: build, test, improve, send patches back. You do not need any special permission like in CVS/sourceforge times! Let's join us!
https://github.com/ldraw-linux
As you can see it is named ldraw-linux. This may confuse somebody so I clearly say at the beginning: the project started to make those utilities working on Linux, hence the name. But all our patches are Windows-compatible and the only limitation is that we do not have any machine and knowledge to test Windows builds now. Such a help is really appreciated - send me a PM or say here in this thread!
In short: our goal is: join our forces together and make this not only working but even improved!
At the end, I want to thank SUSE company for the hackweek: this allows us to work on any opensource project at work, during that week. And you can see there are really many projects people work on