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Is the BOSL 1.03 library obsolete?

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Terrypin
Thu, May 20, 2021 3:29 PM

I'm studying how to find, download, install and use libraries. Probably
making heavy weather of it. Thought I'd start with 'BOSL' as it has code
that might help me make metric threads in my boxes, and possibly some
matching bolts. One thing that's puzzling me is which version I should use.
As you see, the latest version BOSL2 is much larger, but oddly its files
seem to be more than a month older?

Terry

http://forum.openscad.org/file/t3184/BOSL-Comparison.jpg

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I'm studying how to find, download, install and use libraries. Probably making heavy weather of it. Thought I'd start with 'BOSL' as it has code that might help me make metric threads in my boxes, and possibly some matching bolts. One thing that's puzzling me is which version I should use. As you see, the latest version BOSL2 is much larger, but oddly its files seem to be more than a month *older*? Terry <http://forum.openscad.org/file/t3184/BOSL-Comparison.jpg> -- Sent from: http://forum.openscad.org/
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Revar Desmera
Thu, May 20, 2021 7:40 PM

BOSL 1.0.3 is considered stable, but it has a number of things that could have been designed much more elegantly, in hindsight. I didn’t want to break backwards compatibility, so I started working on BOSL2, which let me redesign and rework much of the library. BOSL2 is already a much better library, with much more useful infrastructure, but it is NOT yet stable. Working on that. BOSL1 code, for the most part, will not work with BOSL2.

-Revar

On May 20, 2021, at 8:29 AM, Terrypin T.pinnell@btinternet.com wrote:

I'm studying how to find, download, install and use libraries. Probably making heavy weather of it. Thought I'd start with 'BOSL' as it has code that might help me make metric threads in my boxes, and possibly some matching bolts. One thing that's puzzling me is which version I should use. As you see, the latest version BOSL2 is much larger, but oddly its files seem to be more than a month older?

Terry

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BOSL 1.0.3 is considered stable, but it has a number of things that could have been designed much more elegantly, in hindsight. I didn’t want to break backwards compatibility, so I started working on BOSL2, which let me redesign and rework much of the library. BOSL2 is already a much better library, with much more useful infrastructure, but it is NOT yet stable. Working on that. BOSL1 code, for the most part, will not work with BOSL2. -Revar > On May 20, 2021, at 8:29 AM, Terrypin <T.pinnell@btinternet.com> wrote: > > I'm studying how to find, download, install and use libraries. Probably making heavy weather of it. Thought I'd start with 'BOSL' as it has code that might help me make metric threads in my boxes, and possibly some matching bolts. One thing that's puzzling me is which version I should use. As you see, the latest version BOSL2 is much larger, but oddly its files seem to be more than a month older? > > Terry > > > Sent from the OpenSCAD mailing list archive at Nabble.com.