hi guys,
I'm new on the list so apologies in advance if any of this is covering old ground.
I prepared the RPM package of FG that's up on the FG site. If Curt agrees it's wothwhile, then I'd like to submit FlightGear as an official Fedora project package(*1).
I don't think you need anyones approval for this :-)
This will broaden the visibility of and access to FlightGear by the Fedora Linux community. It will reduce the likelihood
of any package conflict and dependency problems. It will also enforce a worthwhile quality control discipline on the packaging.
As part of this, it occurs to me that FG would be better as a modular framework of packages, rather than one monolithic package.
First off, if you decide to create a separate subsystem for every aircraft then no one is holding you back. In fact the recent changes to FlightGear made this part easy.
The Way I see it FlightGear probably would end up being distributed with around 10 default aircraft and either a separate aircraft pack (containing all the other aircraft) or a special aircraft repository where one could download every aircraft by it's own.
That all said, I think it would be useful to streamline all the binary packages and make sure they all contain the same code (compiled with the same configure options), the same utilities (like Atlas, fgrun, etc) and the same layout.
If anything comes out of this then I'll modify the IRIX binaries to reflect those changes.
Erik
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