Chris Metzler wrote: > On Tue, 11 Jan 2005 16:41:54 +0000 (UTC) Martin Spott wrote:
>> We'll announce it here as soon as we have something that works and >> looks neat enough not to disgrace ourselves :-) > > Can you elaborate, though? Because this has been discussed here several > times over the last year and as a result, other people (e.g. me, Mat > Churchill, etc.) have been working on this as well. Jon Stockill already had a working, well, let's call it a 'skeleton' (hello Jon, please shoot me off-list if I said something too wrong ;-) and in continuation of the recent "Scenery" thread we are currently in the process of developing this into a solution that meets our expectations concerning interface standardization. We'll combine this with an FTP upload site (already present) and different sorts of frontends that enable us to import, export, replicate the object/model database and browse the contents. An early shot can be seen here - the thumbnails are already read from the database (many thanks to Jon !!): http://www.stockill.org/fgfsdb/models.php > [...] I've been working > on making a site in Zope that one can upload to/download from, with the > intent of having pictures, a description, download links, and a comment > log for each item. Mat Churchill and I had been discussing buying > hosting for it. We already _have_ the hosting ;-) To me your intention looks quite similar to what we are currently building. We designed our repository in a way that you can easily replicate if the load gets too high - but the models are small and I currently don't think this will happen too soon .... Martin. -- Unix _IS_ user friendly - it's just selective about who its friends are ! -------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [email protected] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
