Nice to hear! So the developement goes on? So it get's more userfriendly, and more independant of the platform?
That's something we are really needing. I hope there is will be a healthy competeion between terragear and fgsd! Regards HHS --- Ralf Gerlich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > Hello! > > As there have been commits on TerraGear CVS I had to > update the Custom > Scenery patches, so therefore there is a new > fgfs-builder release. > > This release is currently only available as a > tar-ball from > ftp://ftp.uni-duisburg.de/FlightGear/Misc_rag/fgfs-builder > > Note that this also includes several patches to > TerraGear, some of which > are build fixes, but also additions of tools such as > ogrdecode and > modifications to shape-decode. A tool for using DEM > data in any > GDAL-readable format called gdalchop is currently > under development and > will serve to allow using e.g. the CGIAR > preprocessed SRTM data, which > is delivered as GeoTIFF (with some unfortunate > properties regarding the > tiling). > > I had already submitted these patches to Curt, but > it seems that within > about 8 months there hasn't been a single slot of > time in which he was > able to review them. As I don't have access to > TerraGear CVS and > probably won't get any in the near future, I have > switched to managing > my additions locally with git, following the > examples of others here on > the list (Pigeon, John, Hans Fugal, ...). > > Keeping the patches up to date to CVS without having > access to a proper > VCS would become a PITA otherwise. > > Note that Custom Scenery also wants to go further on > development and > enhancement of TerraGear. We will synchronise with > the official > TerraGear CVS regularly and provided that acceptance > of our patches is > probable we will submit our changes back. > > However, given the past history of our submissions > and the consistent > refusal by Curt to give at least one of the team CVS > write-access to > make use of the VCS facilities (e.g. going out on a > development branch), > we now plan to actively fork TerraGear. > > This does not mean that additions and large changes > may happen soon, but > it just relieves us of an important management > burden for bringing > TerraGear forward and it should relieve Curt of our > constant nagging. ;-) > > Just to clarify once more, in case it wasn't clear > already: There is no > bad mood behind this mail at all. We just want to > move on. > > TerraGear is being criticized for its current state > and to a large > extent that criticism is justified. We would like to > try enhancing it > and making it more useable. A proper development > environment is one > requirement for the work that is ahead of us and > while we would have > liked to have done that within the already pretty > sparsely used > facilities, time has shown that it will not be > possible so we're only > creating a proper platform for our work. We are not > breaking up with > FlightGear, quite to the contrary. > > Cheers, > Ralf > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. > Still grepping through log files to find problems? > Stop. > Now Search log events and configuration files using > AJAX and a browser. > Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> > http://get.splunk.com/ > _______________________________________________ > Flightgear-devel mailing list > Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel > Jetzt Mails schnell in einem Vorschaufenster überfliegen. Dies und viel mehr bietet das neue Yahoo! Mail - www.yahoo.de/mail ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
