Stuart Buchanan wrote: > John Denker wrote: >> On 12/01/2009 12:47 PM, Stuart Buchanan wrote:
>> Is the runway information in apt.dat now obsolete, or soon >> to become obsolete? > > The apt.dat file is still used by FG for position and airport information, > so it is not obselete. However, I believe that some airport information > is now also stored as part of the scenery (at least through TerraSync), > so there may be some duplication. > Perhaps Martin can comment? Yes, Sir ;-) Well, I'll save me from writing a longish explanation (last but not least because my hands and fingers are hurting) and, instead, point you to this old posting - written several months before the v1.9.0 release: http://www.mail-archive.com/flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net/msg17407.html The content is still valid as-is. Thanks to James Turner and Durk Talsma we now have a working implementation of the desired features in FlightGear (except from a little nit wrt. the startup position with displaces thresholds present). >> Is there any chance of making the code >> more robust, so that it correctly parses apt.dat even when >> the "new" scenery is in use? > > I think the longer-term plan is to move more of the information > into the scenery database so there is less reliance on apt.dat. As far as I understand, several people would feel a little bit unhappy about moving more AptNav data into the Scenery - for good reasons. Therefore I'd prefer to stick with the current, somehow 'minimalistic' approach. Aside from that, I'm unaware of any faults, missing 'robustness' in the current 'apt.dat' parser, no matter if "old" or "new" Scenery is in use. It's working pretty well for me. >> Does the "new" scenery have a new version number, or is >> it still considered 1.0.1? Are there plans for making >> the "new" scenery available as tarballs, for folks who >> aren't running (or can't run) terrasync? > > I would expect that the "new" scenery will be released with > the next FG release, so that apt.dat and scenery will match. Yup. Actually, I think, when the release happens we're simply going to make a snapshot of what is available via TerraSync and offer this for a packaged download. As a side effect, this would be the best way to have a large user base testing the Scenery. Nevertheless, there are a few special items which have to get closely synced to the software release process with this very upcoming release. Cheers, Martin. -- Unix _IS_ user friendly - it's just selective about who its friends are ! -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Join us December 9, 2009 for the Red Hat Virtual Experience, a free event focused on virtualization and cloud computing. Attend in-depth sessions from your desk. Your couch. Anywhere. http://p.sf.net/sfu/redhat-sfdev2dev _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
