On Friday 22 August 2003 2:26 pm, Curtis L. Olson wrote: > Norman Vine writes: > > I agree having many FDM's and many Aircraft is one of FGFS's > > cooler points, but...., IMO there is no reason these all need be in > > the 'core' package, esp when just staying current with the core > > package gets in the way of code development. > > I think at some point (maybe sooner rather than later?) we need to do > some tweaking to the aircraft directly layout so it is possible to: > > a) make everything related to a particular plane be contained in a > single, dedicated directory tree. >
Where have I heard _that_ before? Oh yeah, me. ;P > b) allow these "aircraft" to be grouped and arranged in various > subdirectories (the system would do a recursive search for > aircraft or something like that.) > > This would allow any aircraft to be distributed as a single .zip or > .tgz or .tar.gz or whatever. Installation of an aircraft would be > simply extracting the archive into the appropriate folder inside the > aircraft folder (at the end user's discretion.) Removal of an > aircraft would simply be to delete the subdirectory. I think most end > users could handle this arrangement ... they seem to be able to do > similar things for other simulators. > > Then we could maintain a "core" set of aicraft in the official > repository, and beyond that, aircraft developers would be responsible > for maintaining and distibuting their own designs. (We could perhaps > do something like making a separate area on the ftp server to > facilitate the storage and distribution of add on aircraft ... because > we are *not* trying to make things more difficult for the aircraft > designers as a side effect.) > > Regards, > > Curt. As I suggested in my prior email, we can do in CVS it with modules. _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
