LEGO 2 LDraw 2 BL

[David Manley]

We could also introduce a new LDraw meta for this, and add it to the parts themselves. Eliminating the need for an index file altogether.

If I'm understanding this correctly, this suggestion would be to specify the part mapping within the individual part files. Given that BrickLink's part number change over time, wouldn't the implication of doing this be that then the individual LDraw part files would need to be updated? If so, I think an index file would be more preferable.

Also, if something along these lines sees the light of day, it might be worth liaising with rebrickable.com. They have a pretty good database mapping between LDraw, LEGO, BrickLink and BrickOwl part ids and a published API which might simplify the generation of any mapping file.

David