On Thursday 15 Oct 2009, Martin Spott wrote: > Pete Morgan wrote: > > Glad you picked the 787, this is broken in CVS with all sorts > > of errors.. thats why We need an aircraft fault list... > > I would not call it "broken", instead, call it "incomplete". To > my opinion we're never going to have any aircraft in FlightGear > complying with the term "finished", there will always be features > missing, simply because it's just a simulation. > > Having different levels of "completeness" is the nature of Open > development and I'm pretty much convinced that the respective > authors are well aware of the deficiencies, as they already did a > lot of research on the respective type of aircraft. > If you think that a "fault list" is going to motivate more > developers to jump into improving the fleet, then please go ahead > and start compiling such list, including detailed or at least > reasonable reports about what's missing - "all sorts of errors" > is insufficient - and, at best, how it should be improved. > > Cheers, > Martin.
I think you need to accept that many aircraft are indeed broken, and most have been broken by software changes made since the aircraft was released. It is not just a case of aircraft being incomplete or incorrectly configured in the first place. Sadly, while no consideration is given to backwards compatibility i.e. by allowing different versions of sub-systems to be used by specifying a version in the appropriate config file, broken aircraft will remain a feature of FG. LeeE ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Come build with us! The BlackBerry(R) Developer Conference in SF, CA is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart your developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications to market and stay ahead of the curve. Join us from November 9 - 12, 2009. Register now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconference _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
