* Nicolas Quijano -- Sunday 08 March 2009: > As for "secret sources", they'll name themselves if they feel > like it,
That would be fun! But I won't hold my breath. > No smearing at all, The nonsense about Nasal being bandaid for a "fledgling FDM" and nobody liking it, is just smearing Nasal and YASim based on undisclosed sources, not on reality. It's rare that I have to read so much nonsense here on the list. > Again, never my intent : we're talking about a fork, a specialized > version of FGFS. That's fine, then. * Melchior FRANZ -- Sunday 08 March 2009: > > What are Lua's advantages? Random picks from Nicolas' email: > > Arumph. Nothing random about your picking, at least be honest about it :) I meant "random" in the sense that when I assembled the list I only glanced over the message again, and tried to pick all relevant arguments, but was also aware that I'd probably miss some. That's where the randomness comes from. Just tell us what I forgot and I'll rip that apart as well. :-P > Quote from the horse's mouth, not someone's else reading of wikipedia !!! Huh? What makes you think I haven't immediately read the wikipedia article myself?! We discussed about it on IRC, but wikipedia is the source. > Nasal also needs the debugger and better sandboxing : making a parsing error > a fatal exception is not a long term solution... You can catch Nasal exceptions. > And no, I'm not surprised Melchior : you have time to play language police, > but no time to write docs, right ? [...] > Maybe you should get off your virtual throne and get down and dirty with > documentation... > Or is it so beneath you or uninteresting that it's better to keep on harping > that the newcomers should do it ? [...] > You'll send PMs about language constructs, and how people should code, but > you won't do the documentation work ? Another such fun-piece! Guess who wrote half of the existing documentation? http://wiki.flightgear.org/index.php/Nasal_scripting_language Check out the change history! You *really* don't know what you are talking about. As if you had to prove it ... > In my empirical experience, it's the number one cause of stuttering and > performance slowdowns (cue in wildfire) > I said experience, not evidence :) > Just because you say it's not a bottleneck, doesn't mean it's not. The wildfire author suspects that particles are the problem with wildfire slowness. > allowing current commercial exploitiers of FSX or earlier version of > the sim to bring their a/c to FGFS, something Curt himself expressed > interest in, Yes, but not by throwing our ideals away and open a can of worms. I would be surprised to learn that Curt wants to encourage commercial entities to enhance fgfs with closed, secret binary parts. Or with aircraft that come only with OSX and MS Windows binary blobs, but without Linux/Solaris/... blobs. Cross-platformness is an important goal of the FlightGear project, and has always been. > If the project's creator, and afaik, still manager/benign overlord to this > day, [...] but ultimately thanks to Curtis for starting it all a decade ago Somehow I think of David MURR when I read "project's creator", but Curt was AFAIK there at the very first hours (along with a few others). A co-founder, indeed. But this was long before my time, so I might be wrong here. > Oh, maybe because like my so-called "sources" you have your own reasons to > reply privately ? The reasons are: - self-proclaimed forum police trying to tell others what they can write - some forum admins asking for more censorship without acceptable reasoning - the dropping of ATOM/RSS with the last forum software update m. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
