On 12/26/2008 06:26 PM, dave perry wrote: > John Denker wrote: >> Question: In the current CVS, why are there five inequivalent copies >> (six copies total) of kr87.xml? >> >> Similarly, why are there four inequivalent copies of kx165*1.xml? >> >> And other examples............ >> >> Other things being equal, such lack of modularity might be >> somewhat suboptimal from the point of view of reliability, >> testability, maintainability, extensibility, et cetera. >> > > But not suboptimal from the point of view of realism. At least for the > pa24-250, adding the following: > 1. Check for radio power and > 2. Adding material animation to simulate radio illumination from the > red light source in the overhead panel > required making modified local to the AC changes to the xml files from > Aircraft/Instruments-3d.
That nicely illustrates my point. Those features are important for realism. They are important in the pa-24 ... and they are just as important in all those other aircraft. IMHO we would be way ahead of the game if DP's upgrades had been incorporated in the "library" copy in Aircraft/Instruments-3d/, rather than being confined to a private pa24-only copy. Sometimes it pays to put all your eggs in one basket, and then do a really good job of looking after that basket. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
