Durk Talsma wrote:
> I do see this type of uncoordinated fragmentation as being counterproductive,
> and not contributing to a positive user experience. I want to emphasize that
> apart from a few "private sandboxes", most of these sites appear to exist for
> genuine reasons, but nevertheless I currently see some fragmentation and lack
> of coordination.To take an example, various aircraft models can be found at
> various stages of development scattered across different sites, and (to take
> another example) individual scenery bits are scattered around various places,
> and /or designed without a clear long term development plan in mind.
also, without a clear central repository, aircraft bit-rot as soon as their
author
leaves the project. At least with CVS (or another central repository) there is
an
easy way for someone else to maintain orphaned aircraft.
> Currently it is up to the user to track all these individual contributions
> and
> try to make sense of it. The beauty of a central repository is that as an
> (admittedly experienced) user you don't need to bother about tracking all
> these sites, and just run "cvs up" to get all the latest and the greatest,
> with usually quite amazing stability.
... and quite amazing slowness.
I recently had to do a checkout of FlightGear-0.9/data, and it took well over 4
hours.
I had enough time to get all the dependencies for FG itself and build the
binaries while
waiting.
As others have mentioned, we really need to move the Aircraft to a new
repository.
That would provide a small cvs data checkout, and would help separate the
system
level content from the aircraft.
-Stuart
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