Re: [Flightgear-devel] [Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS: source/src/Main globals.cxx, 1.61, 1.62

2009-02-01 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Curtis Olson -- Friday 30 January 2009: The traditional unix scheme, and most linux packaging schemes, assume only one version of the software at one time. [...] How about running a live version off a CD? I don't see the problem. There's one executable, which you start like any other

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS: source/src/Main globals.cxx, 1.61, 1.62

2009-02-01 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Melchior FRANZ -- Sunday 01 February 2009: Any of the applications are only interested in FG_DATA. And please not again a fallback from FG_DATA to FG_ROOT/data, because that just repeats that old mistake. No, wait! This would actually be ok: If FG_DATA is defined, use data from there.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS: source/src/Main globals.cxx, 1.61, 1.62

2009-01-30 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* someone off list, but IMHO this should be discussed openly: [...] but the intent is for FG_ROOT to point to a top level directory (i.e. the root) and beneath that would be bin/ data/ src/ lib/ include/ etc There's only one reason why we need to point fgfs and associated scripts and

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS: source/src/Main globals.cxx, 1.61, 1.62

2009-01-30 Thread Curtis Olson
On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 12:59 PM, Melchior FRANZ mfr...@aon.at wrote: * someone off list, but IMHO this should be discussed openly: [...] but the intent is for FG_ROOT to point to a top level directory (i.e. the root) and beneath that would be bin/ data/ src/ lib/ include/ etc Wow,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS: source/src/Main globals.cxx, 1.61, 1.62

2009-01-30 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Curtis Olson -- Friday 30 January 2009: On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 12:59 PM, Melchior FRANZ mfr...@aon.at wrote: Wow, I'm sorry if I caught you on a bad day. This was a good day! Until someone reported once again how he ran into this stupid ambiguity, and someone else posted a broken fix. And it

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS: source/src/Main globals.cxx, 1.61, 1.62

2009-01-30 Thread Curtis Olson
On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 1:57 PM, Melchior FRANZ wrote: A design goal of flightgear has always been to keep itself contained in one area and be a good citizen of your hard drive. This assumption suggests a badly laid out file hierarchy. No; it does not. It's tailored for FlightGear