> -----Original Message----- > From: Melchior FRANZ > > * Norman Vine -- Tuesday 09 May 2006 17:37: > > (this is not aimed at anyone) [...] one shouldn't forget > > that someone else wrote that code most likely for the same reason one > > wants to change it. i.e it fit their 'vision' > > Sure. That's why you need to stay around and defend your code, or it > goes down the drain. Most of the time, though, visions just grow > old and can't be kept alive, no matter how hard you try. A lot of > code in fgfs was written before the new gui, nasal, subsystems, > properties(!) etc. were added. Nobody can expect that the underlying > visions survive that. In other cases, visions were never documented and > aren't "maintained". They die through the carelessness of their creator. > > I for one unually ask for comments if I want to make some major changes. > And usually I don't get much feedback. >
That is a pretty good description of how it works. It seems like FlightGear is well on its way to becoming one of the important open source projects (it already is for most of us). Maybe that comes with a different set of responsiblities. As a "framework" project shouldn't we be maintaining backwards compatibility by default? If there is code we need to remove, perhaps it is the base package version check! It seems to have become a bit of a crutch. Would it not make sense to always keep things working as they were and pick major release intervals every 2 or 3 years to dump a bunch old stuff at once? Best, Jim Wilson -- Jim Wilson Kelco Industries PO Box 160 Milbridge, ME 04658 207-546-7989 ------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
