Re: [Flightgear-devel] FGData Split Completed - a.k.a. Life after the Split

2011-10-19 Thread Cedric Sodhi
On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 04:21:47PM -0600, dave perry wrote: On 10/18/2011 10:24 AM, Cedric Sodhi wrote: - Development - All aircraft related development shall henceforth be performed on repositories which are maintained by the respective authors. It is planned that most

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear aircraft repository

2011-10-19 Thread Cedric Sodhi
On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 10:28:33AM +0300, thorsten.i.r...@jyu.fi wrote: As for the topic brought up here, I sense a bit of sentimentalism clouding the technical judgment of some. (...) In a positive creative development structure you leave the contributors their freedom. Contribute

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear aircraft repository

2011-10-19 Thread Cedric Sodhi
Hello again, I would like to add that I agree, that making any implication about whether authors *should* migrate their planes to their own repos, was wrong. There is of course no reason to turn them away, if only, there is a reason to request them to be part of the central Gitorious-Account (as

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FGData Split Completed

2011-10-19 Thread Cedric Sodhi
Hello everybody, I apologize if my initial mail did not describe it clearly enough. I hope this mail helps with all of your questions: Before you go on a disclaimer ahead: There has been a minor (not just in a manner of speaking) complication with the new FGDATA repository, so there is now a

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FGData Split Completed - a.k.a. Life after

2011-10-19 Thread Cedric Sodhi
On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 04:55:28PM -0400, Jacob Burbach wrote: On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 3:49 PM, Martin Spott martin.sp...@mgras.net wrote: Jacob Burbach wrote: Seems like most people are just banging their heads against the wall trying to make a new system the same as the old, which is

[Flightgear-devel] FGData Split Completed - a.k.a. Life after the Split

2011-10-18 Thread Cedric Sodhi
= IMPORTANT NOTICE TO EVERYONE INVOLVED WITH THE DEVELOPMENT OF FGDATA OR AIRPLANES THEREIN = Thanks to the concentrated effort of all people involved, most notably Jorg - who I'd hereby like to thank on behalf of all of us, for spending three successive days and nights branching, cloning,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FGData Split Completed - a.k.a. Life after the Split

2011-10-18 Thread Cedric Sodhi
On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 05:33:23PM +0100, Stuart Buchanan wrote: On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 5:24 PM, Cedric Sodhi wrote: NOTE: Some aircrafts explicitly require to be inside of FGDATA, because they are programmed to expect their own data files to be found in FGDATA. These airplanes will give

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear aircraft repository

2011-10-18 Thread Cedric Sodhi
On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 09:46:58PM +0200, Gijs de Rooy wrote: Hi all! Cedric wrote: ManDay, on behalf of the Split-Team ^^ ThorstenB wrote: I don't think this is what we agreed upon. I'd like to mention that Cedric did not wrote his email on my behalf nor on

[Flightgear-devel] GIT

2011-10-15 Thread Cedric Sodhi
You may have guessd what this is about: FGDATA and GIT. When we last spoke about it, everything had been prepared to the utmost convenient state possible. I had prepared a script which basically only has to be run, to migrate the truckload of planes, ranging from fine stuff to utter junk, into

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FGData New Structure

2011-09-20 Thread Cedric Sodhi
Dear everyone, a day late and I must admit the first version of the script really wasn't what it was supposed to be, but here is the final version now. Verified and tested on a small reproduction of FGData, example repo has been uploaded[1]. The instructions have changed, no more tmpfs is

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FGData New Structure

2011-09-18 Thread Cedric Sodhi
Hello everybody, I'll keep this message as short as I can for some reason: We have built a script which will extract all Aircraft/* apart from Generic, Instruments and Instruments-3d into separate, cleaned up repositories and also extract the clean fgdata. The script is attached. Now we need to

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FGData New Structure

2011-09-18 Thread Cedric Sodhi
... And here is the script #!/bin/bash echo 'Splitting FGDATA in 10 Seconds - Press Ctrl-C to cancel!' echo ' WARNING ' echo 'Make _ABSOLUTELY SURE_ that you are in the right repository' echo 'Running this script in a wrong repository will have unpredictable' echo 'results!' echo '

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FGData New Structure

2011-09-18 Thread Cedric Sodhi
I'm afraid I attached the wrong version, here is the correct one. #!/bin/bash iodir=/tmp/fgsplit echo 'Splitting FGDATA in 10 Seconds - Press Ctrl-C to cancel!' echo ' WARNING ' echo 'Make _ABSOLUTELY SURE_ that you are in the right repository' echo 'Running this script in a wrong

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FGData New Structure

2011-09-18 Thread Cedric Sodhi
Hopefully the right version now. Had to add something. #!/bin/bash iodir=/tmp/fgsplit echo 'Splitting FGDATA in 10 Seconds - Press Ctrl-C to cancel!' echo ' WARNING ' echo 'Make _ABSOLUTELY SURE_ that you are in the right repository' echo 'Running this script in a wrong repository will

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FGData New Structure

2011-09-18 Thread Cedric Sodhi
Right. I've been a bit sloppy when I wrote this yesterday. I'll rewrite it in a more proper and failsafe manner today. You might want to want to wait until then. On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 12:21:40AM +0200, Arnt Karlsen wrote: On Sun, 18 Sep 2011 23:07:48 +0200, Cedric wrote in message

[Flightgear-devel] FGData New Structure

2011-09-17 Thread Cedric Sodhi
Dear Everyone, I hope this is the last time we will have to discuss this topic, since over the last months it seemed that everyone agreed with that FGDATA - has to be split sometime - should be split a.s.a.p. We agreed that after the current release of 2.4 would be a good point to get the

[Flightgear-devel] Former AI Plans - revived?

2011-09-17 Thread Cedric Sodhi
Hello, I'm ManDay (It has been critizised that I did not choose my nickname as a listname, so I wanted to tell you who I am, in case you didn't know). Just today, I received a PM from Hooray on the forums, mentioning my draft proposal for a strategy to implement AI ATC in Flightgear. Sadly, the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Splitting fgdata

2011-04-20 Thread Cedric Sodhi
I appreciate your effort Roland. I hope this workarround doesn't take the momentum from the original endeavor, though. On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 12:17:43AM +0200, Roland Häder wrote: Hi, I have updated my little website, plus the fgdata.bundle and all checksum files and signature. I will