Matthew Tippett wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to raise the question of a flightgear CVS snapshot being > made and hosted. > > There was a video recently posted of a demonstration of (what I believe > is) Tim Moore's OSG based camera system (8 displays connected to one PC) > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brG3-yyvv9Q > > this was picked up by Phoronix.com > > http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NjczNQ > > Now Phoronix is wanting to do a bigger article on the multi-display > support from ATI, which will include how to set up flightgear on many > displays. Once that article is out of the way, Phoronix is also looking > at enabling automated testing for flightgear based on the multi-display > and data playback capability in Phoronix Test Suite. > > To achieve all this, Phoronix will require a declared CVS snapshot on > flightgear.org to hook it all in together, although not a formal > release, a snapshot tarball for both scenery and code will be better > than "some CVS point in August". > > In the past been working with Tim Moore, but Red Hat seems to be keeping > him very busy. Is there anyone else on this list that would be willing > to declare a snapshot and host it on flightgear.org? > I'm busy enough, but I'm willing to do this. We don't seem to find a common time on IRC very often. I did send a query your way asking whether Phoronix required any particular format in the snapshot. Also, CVS HEAD is likely to depend on a specific version of OpenSceneGraph, perhaps even an unreleased one. How do we handle that when making a snapshot?
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