[Flightgear-devel] Legacy #ifdefs

2008-07-24 Thread James Turner
(Trying to get back up to speed with FG after a few years absence) I've noticed the FG (and SG) code contain a fair amount of legacy pre- processor cruft, some of which is already accompanied by (sometimes hilarious) comments questioning its validity. Notably: - #defines relating to

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Legacy #ifdefs

2008-07-24 Thread Erik Hofman
James Turner wrote: The key question is, are all of the above #defines safe to be killed? And are there any others I've missed? There's occasional references to Borland and IRIX compilers (i.e ancient versions of gcc, like pre 3.x!) in some #defines which I guess could also be cleaned

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Legacy #ifdefs

2008-07-24 Thread James Turner
On 25 Jul 2008, at 01:07, Erik Hofman wrote: I've just recently committed a patched version of JSBSim that did just that and so far I've seen nobody complaining. For me it's a rather simple issue; FlightGear 1.0 is the last version for old(ish) hardware and compilers and FlightGear CVS is

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Yet more aerodrome taxiways/aprons questions

2008-07-24 Thread Martin Fenelon
On Sunday 20 July 2008 12:56, Curtis Olson wrote: Sandtoft is a minor aerodrome and as such only has basic markings. Non-precision has the 'piano keys' which aren't required in this case. There is a splash screen as flightgear fires up featuring a Cub. The runway markings in that image,

[Flightgear-devel] FlightGear scenery

2008-07-24 Thread Martin Fenelon
Hello, Is the current official FlightGear scenery created with a 'World Custom Scenery Project' patched version of terragear? Martin. - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Yet more aerodrome taxiways/aprons questions

2008-07-24 Thread Martin Spott
Martin Fenelon wrote: Finally got an old terragear install running again, visual markings are exactly what I'm after. Talking of terragear, has the main site been moved? I can't get any of the documentation or older CVS snapshots. You're going to find the most recent development of

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear scenery

2008-07-24 Thread Martin Spott
Martin Fenelon wrote: Is the current official FlightGear scenery created with a 'World Custom Scenery Project' patched version of terragear? Well, this is not just a patched version, TerraGear CS (Custom Scenery, see my previous EMail) is actually where TerraGear development is being

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear scenery

2008-07-24 Thread Ralf Gerlich
Hello Martin, Martin Fenelon wrote: Is the current official FlightGear scenery created with a 'World Custom Scenery Project' patched version of terragear? yes, it is, which is also the reason for some very unfortunate bugs in the scenery itself, which up to now I wasn't able to fix or work

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Legacy #ifdefs

2008-07-24 Thread James Turner
On 24 Jul 2008, at 19:43, James Turner wrote: I'll work on some patches for the macintosh | __MWERKS__ | __APPLE__ stuff, FX / XMESA stuff is not controversial, but I'd want to avoid creating merges headaches for people working on OSG code. I guess cleaning up / getting rid of compilers.h will

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Legacy #ifdefs

2008-07-24 Thread Tim Moore
James Turner wrote: On 25 Jul 2008, at 01:07, Erik Hofman wrote: I've just recently committed a patched version of JSBSim that did just that and so far I've seen nobody complaining. For me it's a rather simple issue; FlightGear 1.0 is the last version for old(ish) hardware and compilers and

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Legacy #ifdefs

2008-07-24 Thread Martin Spott
Tim Moore wrote: Hi Tim, IRIX (and Solaris and HP) compilers are still used by some of our developers, and they have their own set of special bugs. Well, if you would consider having a closer look, I'd be happy to create some Solaris/SunStudio error messages for you. Last time people -

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Legacy #ifdefs

2008-07-24 Thread Erik Hofman
James Turner wrote: Patch to remove macintosh and MWERKS from Simgear. Tested on Mac only - I'd verify Linux compilation normally but currently travelling. Tested for Linux and committed. Note, screen/colours.h contains some code relating to gamma which looks very, very unlikely to be

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Legacy #ifdefs

2008-07-24 Thread James Turner
On 24 Jul 2008, at 20:36, Tim Moore wrote: I'm all for cleaning up the #ifdefs and #defines. As a baseline, we don't need to support compilers that are too broken to compile OpenSceneGraph, and we would like to support Cygwin. I believe that gives an oldest gcc version of 3.4.4.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Legacy #ifdefs

2008-07-24 Thread Vivian Meazza
Tim Moore wrote -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:flightgear- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sent: 24 July 2008 19:37 To: FlightGear developers discussions Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] Legacy #ifdefs James Turner wrote: On 25 Jul 2008, at 01:07, Erik Hofman

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear OSG

2008-07-24 Thread Stuart Buchanan
--- On Wed, 23/7/08, Vivian Meazza wrote: 3d clouds have not been ported to osg. At the current rate of progress - sometime in the next decade :-). Progress is marginally better than that - I've ported the code and have even got it to compile. I'm now at the stage of crashes-on-startup which

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear OSG

2008-07-24 Thread Sergey Kurdakov
Hello Stuart, BTW as 3d clouds seems used multipass rendering maybe http://projects.tevs.eu/osgppu will be of some help. Regards Sergey On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 1:12 AM, Stuart Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- On Wed, 23/7/08, Vivian Meazza wrote: 3d clouds have not been ported to osg.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear OSG

2008-07-24 Thread Vivian Meazza
Stuart Buchanan wrote --- On Wed, 23/7/08, Vivian Meazza wrote: 3d clouds have not been ported to osg. At the current rate of progress - sometime in the next decade :-). Progress is marginally better than that - I've ported the code and have even got it to compile. I'm now at the