On Wed, 2002-11-13 at 18:05, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > On 13 Nov 2002 15:22:15 -0800, > Tony Peden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > <1037229736.19944.727.camel@raptor>: > > > On Wed, 2002-11-13 at 08:16, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > > > > > ..I like a birds view building block approach: JSBSim can be run as > > > an external fdm to FG. How about making this the standard approach? > > > > > > Engine models imho should be called externally again, from the fdms. > > > All of this is built on top of zlib, plib, SimGear etc. Modules. > > > With clear interfaces. > > > > I can see the appeal of multiple processes in some instances (such as > > the need to avoid mixing GPL and non-GPL code). Otherwise, it's > > unnecessary complication, especially from a users point of view. > > ..coming from penguin world with many nice utilities co-operating > to do the work, I beg to differ. ;-)
I live in that world too ... and I've seen the kind of confusion multi-process programs cause. For me, its enough to avoid creating one without good reason. > > > > > > > ..some of us like hot OpenGL graphics and neat sceneries to plan and > > > tweak our next air show. At other times, we analyse and tweak an > > > airframe or an engine, and then we prefer to burn our cpu cycles in > > > the fdm and engine models and can live with slow vesa-type graphics. > > > > You really don't need to be concerned about such a trade ... the fdms > > simply do not consume alot of cpu cycles. > > ..currently, no, agreed, in the future we may want to tinker with more > complex fdms, flexing wings, iceing, damage models, None of which will consume a great deal more CPU cycles. or hook up a plane, > balloon, submarine or a wind tunnel to it Real time CFD is a pipe dream. Period. >, then we have Atlas, Open > Cockpit, networking, etc, etc, some day I will want to try fire more > sparkling pine wood in my zeppeliner's gasifier... ;-) > > -- > ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt... ;-) > ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... > Scenarios always come in sets of three: > best case, worst case, and just in case. > > > _______________________________________________ > Flightgear-devel mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel > -- Tony Peden [EMAIL PROTECTED] We all know Linux is great ... it does infinite loops in 5 seconds. -- attributed to Linus Torvalds _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
