On Wednesday 10 September 2003 15:26, Erik Hofman wrote:
> Curtis Olson wrote:
> 
> > This is all very true, especially in the open source world.  However,
> > speaking as the flightgear project maintainer, I get the sense that we
> > are starting to collect a number of half finished (or just barely
> > started) aircraft that really aren't coherent or flyable yet.  I
> > realize building aircraft for FlightGear is a ***lot*** of work, and I
> > don't want to knock the contributions that everyone has made, they are
> > very welcome.  But the flip side is that a new user who is trying
> > flightgear for the very first time might have to go through several
> > aircraft before they find one that flies plausibly through all the
> > normal flight regimes.
> 
> Agreed. But that's really a FlightGear issue.
> 
> What I've been thinking of is setting up a flag somehow that could be 
> checked to indicate which aircraft probably shouldn't be included in the 
>   official base package archive.
> 
> Erik

I think this would largly be solved by moving the majority of the a/c out of 
the base package and placing them in a separate repositry where they're 
downloaded individually.  The development status of the a/c would be part of 
the description that people would read when selecting an a/c so they'd know 
what state it's in before downloading it.

LeeE


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