Hi, I'm not a developer, but I can see from the time I began to use FG the great work that have been done. My thought is that instead of the only use of numbers to count the FG versions, maybe this could be named using great historic aviators names like Guynemer, Yeager, Mermoz, St-Exupery, Red Baron (he already gave his name to a game though), etc. and so many I don't know but maybe you know, and more "moderns", or not only pilots but aeronautical related (inventors, ingeeners, etc.).
I think it would be nice to see a release named FG Lindbergh (or any ather name) for the version 0.9.1x, or 1.x.x. But what about the right to use this names? No single idea... Also, I think that it is not because FG is not entirely finished, and has reach all of its goals (which are increasing everyday) you couldn't release a version. Indeed when I start computing I used FS *4* which maybe used all the capacities of my old 8086 8MHz with 640Ko of RAM, so I understand why they had to change the version number as a top-level related to machines capabilities, but for now there is not a program which use 100% of capacities of our moderns computers (as far as I know...), so the version number is not linked with machines limitations especially with FG (maybe it's not true for MSFS ;-), I don't know, I don't use it for many years...). And to finish, I think that making more releases preserve the idea for end-users that FG is not a dead-project as sometimes it can be specified or implied on some games sites... (even if I know that FG is not a game, or not *only* a game and many organisations/universities can use it with other goal than having fun with (and that's one of the reasons making me think that FG is really a GREAT opensource project) Here are my two cents. Regards Seb PS: my preferred version in use is HEAD as it was already said in this thread ;) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: The Future of Linux Business White Paper from Novell. From the desktop to the data center, Linux is going mainstream. Let it simplify your IT future. http://altfarm.mediaplex.com/ad/ck/8857-50307-18918-4 _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
