On Monday 30 March 2009, George Patterson wrote: > On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 5:34 AM, LeeE <l...@xxxxxx.xxxx.com> wrote: > > On Sunday 29 March 2009, Ron Jensen wrote: > >> On Sun, 2009-03-29 at 01:55 -0700, syd adams wrote: > >> > I have to agree here ... seems pointless to keep them in cvs > >> > if gerard will have maintained versions available ... > >> > Also saves everyone's time down the road trying to explain > >> > why it's broken and where to get the current version.:) > >> > Cheers > >> > >> And I disagree. We should leave them in CVS. There is no > >> point in causing their removal from everyone who uses CVS's > >> hard-drive at this time. > >> > >> Ron > > > > If the aircraft is going to be maintained ex-cvs but not > > maintained within cvs, then retaining it within cvs just adds > > another unmaintained aircraft to the list. > > > > While someone, at some point in the future, may adopt it, until > > that actually happens all you're achieving by keeping it in cvs > > is making an obsolete version available, which is worse than > > useless. A link to the maintained version makes much more > > sense. > > Hi Guys, > > Agreed, except for the situation where the author of an aircraft > decides to change the license. When this happens, a fork has been > created, even if there is still only one version. > > If an aircraft is not available in CVS or somewhere else that is > authoritative, where does that leave a community. The "former > license" community has rights to extend the pre-fork version of > the software/data. > > Just a thought. > > Regards > > > George
George, and everyone else - please remember not to include e-mail addresses in the body of your e-mails. These e-mails end up in archived lists where the e-mail addresses are harvested by spammers. LeeE ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel