There is an important growing trend now in software applications to make them" portable" in the sense that the complete installation resides in it's one directory. There is no writing to the registry and any ini stuff is kept in the same directory as the program. This enables the program to reside complelety on portable bootable disks which are now the rage and growing in importancw as a quick look at the latest linux and even portable windows installs to moile sd usb drives will show.
I hope that flightgeatr will honor this model as well. Frankly the move microsoft encouraged from self contained installs with ini files in the same directroy to registry entrees was designed to keep windows and microsft control of the user. It made it difficult to move the installs to different copies of an operating s systems on another computer thus the user was forced to instead buy microsoft os upgrades. With the huge growing importance of having all your software including the operating system on a usb mem stick and have the usb be bootable on any computer I hope flightgear is following that path as well. Frankly there is no harm to having a flightgear install being complelety contained in one directory and there are many advantages such as portability, reproducability for freinds and easy simply zip the directory backups. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;164216239;13503038;w?http://sf.net/marketplace _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
