On Saturday 10 March 2012, David Paleino wrote: > Well, I downloaded leocad's parts library, and.. they're precompiled binary > files: > > $ ls /tmp/pieces-5243/ > pieces.bin pieces.idx sysfont.txf textures.bin textures.idx > > I'd expect these were compiled from some .dat (and possibly other files?). > We need to find out how :)
OK, that's a question for the LeoCAD developers, I think. It looks like a collection of database files, but a quick search of the site indicates that the tools/convert directory may contain code to generate these files from the original LDraw parts library. > Here's another point: to be an acceptable form of "source", we'd need some > software in Debian (main) capable of creating/manipulating those .dat > files. Expanding the comparison to fonts, we have "fontforge" which nicely > behaves with .ttf (not sure about .sfd). So, even if they're binary files, > they are actually the source. Right. This is what I suspect is the case with the original LDraw parts. > I hope the situation's a bit clearer now :) Yes, thanks. :-) David -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-wnpp-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201203102244.03036.da...@boddie.org.uk