Erik wrote > 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. >
Something must be done, this is something, therefore it should be done :-). Seriously, Git has never been right for the data. We were promised a fix, which has never materialized. SVN can be no worse, and it might be better. Terrasync indicates that it might well be better, and might give us the ability to pull aircraft down for MP on the fly. I agree with Erik. Perhaps Alessandro would take this forward with some more concrete proposals that we could consider. Vivian ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
