On Fri, 2008-12-26 at 18:48 -0700, John Denker wrote: > 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.
In theory its a good idea, in practice it has not worked as well. The Instruments-3d folder is a morgue, its impossible to make changes to the instruments there without coordinating the change with any and every aircraft developer who might have used the instrument, and the panel lighting standards used in Instruments-3d aren't the best choices. And if I had a dollar for every time I had to swap 28 volt panel lights for 6 volt panel lights IRL, I'd be retired now... Oh, wait. I am :) Ron ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
