At 11/10/02, you wrote:
On Sunday 10 November 2002 2:37 pm, Michael Selig wrote:
> At 11/10/02, Curt Olson wrote:
> >Michael Selig writes:
> > > Since these are imports courtesy of developers working with MSFS, would
> > > it be a good idea to keep a copy of their models in original form in a
> > > separate directory?  That way they could always come to FGFS and fly
> > > their original models as well as any enhancements to them?  In each
> > > case, the original model developers have expressed some interest in
> > > FGFS.
> >
> >I would think that the author already would provide an original
> >"reference" version, i.e. the one that works with MSFS.  If we have to
> >make slight modications to get the model to work with FGFS then why
> >not go whole hog and spruce it up a little while we are at
> >it... assuming we have the author's permission to do so.
>
> Ok, this makes sense.  The "OEM" resides w/ the working package for MSFS
> and people can always get that from, say, http://www.flightsim.com.  We
> will only keep those parts (original or otherwise) that are currently
> working w/ the latest version of FGFS.
>

Right. I'd put a download URL for the original in the README.
That's been done (using a URL and/or email address). These model README files are in the ~/Aircraft/*/Model/uiuc dir.

Regards,
Michael


> In the future for the new aircraft that I add, I'll just put the models in
> the ~/Aircraft/*/Models.
>

Sweet.

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