On Fri, 2011-06-24 at 10:48 +0000, TDO_Brandano - wrote: > Ok, before I get flamed to a crisp, let me explain what is my > reasoning behind this. Right now the fgdata repository is about 9 GB. > This makes it really, really difficult to obtain an initial checkout > of the fgdata folder, expecially for people that do not have a very > good connection. at the same time it is not possible, to my knowledge, > to only grab part of the repository. And most people don't really need > he entire repository anyway. GIT is fantastic to handle code with many > contributors, but I think it is really overkill for airplanes, where > usually the number of people contributing to a single plane is fairly > small and is unlikely that two people should work on the same file at > the same time. Also, using SVN for planes the same way that is being > used for scenery would allow individual planes to be pulled by a > frontend, much like scenery is. Or even to be pulled by FGFS itself, > though that's probably science fiction at this moment in time. So, is > this something that could be implemented in the future? Am I barking > up the wrong tree? I can foresee some issues, like, where should the > repository be hosted, any other thing I have overlooked?
It has been proposed before and I believe it's the way to go. It's just a matter of someone stepping up for the task. Erik ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense.. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-c1 _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
