On Dec 20, 2007 1:20 AM, GWMobile <> wrote:
> There is an important growing trend now in software applications to make
> them" portable" in the sense that the complete installation resides in
> it's one directory.
The "core" FlightGear code has always been setup to be relocatable and
containable within a single directory tree. We do support a ~/.fgfsrc file
for unix folks, but that isn't required. I don't know all the specifics of
"fgrun", I believe that it writes some persistent state info to your home
directory, but I don't know if that can be relocated or avoided?
We have always tried to maintain a flexible balance with our installation
and location capabilities so an end user could compile/install FlightGear in
their own area, or a system adminstrator could install flightgear system or
network wide so it is available for all users on a computer or within an
organization.
I do think we still need to keep moving towards user friendliness.
FlightGear started out as a command line app, not as a gui app, so the
result has been a bit clunky for people that are used to slick platform
specific user interfaces. But at the same time, we have tried to create a
widely portable system which means we need to seek a least common
denominator in gui capabilities ... a trade off between portability and a
pretty gui ...
Curt.
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