George, On Mon, Nov 06, 2006 at 08:57:41PM +1030, George Patterson wrote: [...] > > > But there has been some talk about stand-alone bridging software AFAIK. > > > > The background of my question was the following: > > If there are ideas to implement VATSIM I need not to go on to implenent > > something else (non compatible) for flightgear. > > > > Thanks, Holger > > > > Hi Holger, > > The short of it is fairly simple. VATSIM refuses to release the details > of their protocol (possible exception being via an NDA) which makes it > incompatible with an Open source project. As such it will never be > included with Flightgear or even in the same cvs repositiory. > > Therefore we (the flightgear community) will have come up with our own > protocol and means of operating.
Ok, I see the problem. But I think it will be difficult to get a big community for atc flying and it will be more difficult to build the "same" atc applications for a new protocol. Maybe a new protocol will be better and really open - but tell this a user who has a woriking solution up and running (or at least in a state where he knows the bugs and ships arround => M$ Win) :-( As I wrote in my last email: I have some interest in writing a voice and (simple) atc client. But I don't like to write thousand lines of code and at the end someone says "I have a VATSIM gateway - let's rock with VATSIM". regards, Holger Holger -- ##### #### ## ## Holger Wirtz Phone : (+49 30) 884299-40 ## ## ## ### ## DFN-Verein Fax : (+49 30) 884299-70 ## ## #### ###### Stresemannstr. 78 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ## ## ## ## ### 10963 Berlin ##### ## ## ## GERMANY WWW : http://www.dfn.de GPG-Fingerprint: ABFA 1F51 DD8D 503C 85DC 0C51 E961 79E2 6685 9BCF ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
