[Flightgear-devel] Re: Options saving patches

2005-12-17 Thread Melchior FRANZ
Sorry to be annoying yet again, but that's what I'm best at: * Erik Hofman -- Saturday 17 December 2005 10:48: I must say I like the idea, but given it's current state (no windows support) I would like to postpone it until after FlightGear 1.0 is released. And I would like to postpone the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Options saving patches

2005-12-17 Thread Erik Hofman
Melchior FRANZ wrote: Sorry to be annoying yet again, but that's what I'm best at: * Erik Hofman -- Saturday 17 December 2005 10:48: I must say I like the idea, but given it's current state (no windows support) I would like to postpone it until after FlightGear 1.0 is released. And I would

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Options saving patches

2005-12-17 Thread Stefan Seifert
Erik Hofman wrote: Lighten up, I just started looking at this patch since Fred promised to fill in the missing gaps. I just noticed, that this patch could break compilation, since in sg_patch.cxx the new method is called makeDir and in the header it's still makedir. I know, I should always

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Options saving patches

2005-12-17 Thread Erik Hofman
Stefan Seifert wrote: Erik Hofman wrote: Lighten up, I just started looking at this patch since Fred promised to fill in the missing gaps. I just noticed, that this patch could break compilation, since in sg_patch.cxx the new method is called makeDir and in the header it's still makedir. I

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Options saving patches

2005-12-17 Thread Stefan Seifert
Erik Hofman wrote: I noticed this already. I think I like it to be called create() instead, but that's a different matter. Maybe createDir? Because it's a member of SGPath which may as well be the path to a file. So it'd be confusing if path_to_a_file.create() created a directory. I

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Options saving patches

2005-12-17 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Melchior FRANZ wrote: Either the 1.0 number means anything, then fgfs better be complete. Or it doesn't mean anything, then let's release it when it's done and call the next releases 0.9.10++. Or is there a compelling reason to rush out 1.0 *now*? One that we aren't told for whatever reason?

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Options saving patches

2005-12-17 Thread Paul Surgeon
On Saturday 17 December 2005 16:10, Curtis L. Olson wrote: Maybe we should drop the arbitrary version numbering scheme (and I do see the version numbers as 99.9.9% arbitrary) and go with code names for our releases. Would that make people happier? Curt. No what would make us more happy is

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Options saving patches

2005-12-17 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Paul Surgeon wrote: On Saturday 17 December 2005 13:40, Erik Hofman wrote: Melchior FRANZ wrote: Sorry to be annoying yet again, but that's what I'm best at: * Erik Hofman -- Saturday 17 December 2005 10:48: I must say I like the idea, but given it's current state (no windows

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Options saving patches

2005-12-17 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Paul Surgeon wrote: No what would make us more happy is to know why there is such an urgency to have two FG releases in the space of a couple of months when up till now we've been releasing about once per year. What has prompted this change? This decision didn't involve the developers at

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Options saving patches

2005-12-17 Thread AJ MacLeod
On Saturday 17 December 2005 11:40, Erik Hofman wrote: Lighten up, I just started looking at this patch since Fred promised to fill in the missing gaps. I was delighted to see a form of the options saving patches going into CVS, since I've been using the earlier versions with no troubles at

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Options saving patches

2005-12-17 Thread Erik Hofman
AJ MacLeod wrote: I really hope this is made to work at least as well as the earlier patches because I think it's a _great_ feature and one that makes life with FG that little bit more pleasant... Yeah well, I was trying to outsmarten myself, and got hit in the back. It took me way longer

[Flightgear-devel] Re: Options saving patches

2005-12-17 Thread Pigeon
I guess what Curt was saying is, him being the release manager of the project, has to find appropriate and free time do all the things for a release, which is fair enough and understandable. Perhaps we can have more people to help doing a release? Personally I've only witnessed one