Jonathan Richards wrote:
I had a cunning plan to burn FGBenchmark onto business card CDs for giveaway at the forthcoming Linux exhibition in London, but 0.0.3 is too big for the media, which only takes 50 MB.
I'll have a look at it this week (I'm on holiday the next week so I'm a bit under pressure to complete a couple of things _before_ I leave ;-)
Martin.
A further thought occurs:
What's the smallest possible working flightgear package? I'd love to really play with updated versions of Flightgear, but the huge downloads are not very feasable on a 56k connection (and one phone line with other people wanting to also use it).
Immediate thoughts as to how to reduce the size (particularly for the installer version in Win32, next update, if its feasable):
data/scenery is has the potential to become quite large. I looked at the Fg 0.9.3 (installer exe, the one I have) installation and this has been improved from earlier base packages, which seemed to include the entire tile from 130n to 140n (or something like that, you get the idea).
data/aircraft is pretty big. It was suggested that most of the aircraft be culled out. I agree with this. In my limited experience, I've only used the C-172 (default). But this is because I usually screw up with the command line options. Still, I tend to use one type of plane, even with highly GUI easy-interface sims like MSFS. I say include C172 as a default, but severely cull out most aircraft. It's still pretty big as far as filesize as it is. This could be supplemented in the same way scenery is with a webpage that allows for the download of individual aircraft. Obviously, this might entail some maintainence, but I'm willing to possibly take on the job if someone wants to be patient with me and help me out (I haven't done a whole lot of net programming [i.e. almost none] but this might be a good way to learn)
data/textures.high is 25mb. Are these textures used by default anywhere? If they're not, then why have them in there?
data/data just has cloud info. Is this just 3d clouds? As a general armchair user of FG, I don't use much of anything beyond the defaults. Maybe this should be removed.
If it's ranty, sue me :) JD
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