Re: [Flightgear-devel] [RFC] Dynamic plug-in interface for I/O modules

2009-06-28 Thread Robin van Steenbergen
Melchior FRANZ wrote: > I'm (still) against binary runtime modules for FlightGear. > I'm more curious as to whether we need them. The entire guts of FlightGear are available to almost anyone via external communications (e.g. sockets) and Nasal. Why not write a communications script or Nasal s

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [RFC] Dynamic plug-in interface for I/O modules

2009-06-28 Thread Melchior FRANZ
I'm (still) against binary runtime modules for FlightGear. They are an invitation for circumventing the GPL, locking in users, and potentially harm cross-platformness. I find the prospect of a vendor offering a new device with closed source libraries for stock FlightGear worrying, and even more so

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [RFC] Dynamic plug-in interface for I/O modules

2009-06-28 Thread Mathias Fröhlich
Hi, So, since I wanted to get in touch with you anyway ... Good to hear from you! On Friday 26 June 2009 12:09:48 Petr Gotthard wrote: > I'd like to bring up again the issue of standalone FlightGear modules > (add-ons, plug-ins). You probably hear this question once a while, but I > have a new

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [RFC] Dynamic plug-in interface for I/O modules

2009-06-26 Thread Erik Hofman
Petr Gotthard wrote: > To follow the "do things right" rule I think it would be great to implement a > generic interface for standalone I/O modules. Both Micro$oft FSX and X-Plane > have such interface. The M&S HLA users would just need to build a shared > module (.dll or .so) for a particular

[Flightgear-devel] [RFC] Dynamic plug-in interface for I/O modules

2009-06-26 Thread Petr Gotthard
Hello, I'd like to bring up again the issue of standalone FlightGear modules (add-ons, plug-ins). You probably hear this question once a while, but I have a new argument. ;-) Although the FlightGear design fairly modular it's provided as a single binary. Everyone who wants to create a new I/O