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

2009-06-28 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

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

[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

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 MS HLA users would just need to build a shared module (.dll or .so) for a particular HLA