--- Martin Spott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> "Buchanan, Stuart" wrote:
> > --- "Curtis L. Olson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> Melchior FRANZ wrote:
>
> > If so, is the convention to name the directories as follows:
> >
> > $FG_ROOT/data/Scenery - standard SF bay scenery included in base
> package
> > $FG_ROOT/Scenery - scenery downloaded in 10x10 chunks
> > $FG_ROOT/WorldScenery - scenery downloaded by terrasync
> [...]
> >> Not to get overly pedantic, but someone suggested
> >> .../.../WorldScenery/{Terrain|Objects} for *nix platforms, and the
> >> person doing the documentation work said "ok", so my response was a
> plea
> >> to keep things consistent across platforms and just use
> >> $FG_ROOT/data/Scenery as the root of the scenery tree.
> >
> > Now I'm getting even more confused. I thought $FG_ROOT/data/Scenery
> was
> > just to contain the base package scenery for the SF Bay area.
>
> There's indeed some confusion in here.
> $FG_ROOT actually points to the data/-Directory, this means, $FG_ROOT
> contains ATC/, Aircraft/ ...., Models/ ...., Scenery/ and so on. As
> far as I remember Melchior's intention was to express this. I think
> Curt's statement accidentally differed from what he wanted to say - as
> he is definitely involved in the creation of the $FG_ROOT-contruct :-)
Yup, I think I got confused between FG_HOME (deprecated?) and FG_ROOT.
> > Maybe this is a can of worms I don't have enough understanding to want
> to
> > open ...
>
> This _is_ a can of worms but I certainly don't mind talking about it
> from time to time. In fact people tend to use different directories
> based on their experience and the operating system they use. Adding to
> that, those people who know almost only one flavour/distribution of
> Unix usually choose a different directory than those who have platform
> interoperability in mind .... :-)
OK, so I think I'd like to suggest that for the Getting Started Guide we
suggest for Windows
<whatever_path_to_FG>/data/Scenery
<whatever_path_to_FG>/Scenery
and for *nix
$FG_ROOT/Scenery
/usr/share/FlightGear/Scenery
I'm expecting that *nix users will be familiar enough with their file
system to change it as they see fit, but I'd like to be more prescriptive
for Windows users who are _generally_ not going to be as happy messing
with $FG_SCENERY on their
Apologies for the confusion that has clouded already muddy water.
-Stuart
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