-------------------------------------------------- From: "Stefan Seifert" <n...@detonation.org> Sent: Friday, February 26, 2010 5:26 PM To: "FlightGear developers discussions" <flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] Duplicate files in base package > This repeatedly strikes me as problems that Linux packages managers have > solved completely, elegantly and simply a long time ago. They support > dependencies, so commonly used parts only have to be installed once. They > support versioning, making upgrades simple and safe by for example not > allowing binaries to be installed alongside incompatible data. With > systems > like the openSUSE build service, users can even create their own > repositories > and link to others. Those systems even support mirrors to spread > downloads. > > Maybe it's time to use what's already there? > One problem which springs to mind is that there must be many same name files (e.g. HSI.xml and its related HSI.ac) which are specific to one aircraft and are in fact entirely different.
These will need to be renamed per aircraft (e.g SpitfireMKX.HSI) or per instrument manufacturer (e.g. FD108HSI). However if a common library could be set up a great saving would be made, not only in unused duplicates, but in the ability of designers to find already completed instruments. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
