On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 11:39 AM, Francesco Angelo Brisa <fbr...@gmail.com> wrote: > Any news about a possible separation of aircrafts data from the fgdata > folder ? > I am afraid this topic is sligtly falling into the "forget about it" folder > :-( > > > Cheers > Francesco > Some of the inertia -- on my part -- comes from the fact that the benefits are not visible until the end: until all the aircraft are removed from fgdata and fgdata is effectively regenerated through various git magic, the repository will still keep all the history, including any deleted files. However, we need to start somewhere. I had been thinking that the aircraft needed to be grouped into repos -- by theme, author, era, whatever -- but perhaps that is totally unnecessary.
One thing (perhaps the only thing) that was nice about keeping aircraft in fgdata is that enforced synchronization between the aircraft and other common nasal and instrument files. However, if they are split out, maybe we will be forced to be more mature about backward compatibility, etc. So, let's choose an aircraft, preferably not one being considered for the base distribution, and suck it into its own repo. I'll perform and document the git magic, which uses git-filter-branch, to preserve history for an aircraft in the new repo. If this goes well, we'll do it with all the rest, build a new fgdata without aircraft, and drop the old one. Sound good? Any nominations? I favor the an2, which I like, has lots of textures and sounds, and which hasn't seen any recent activity. Tim > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > BlackBerry® DevCon Americas, Oct. 18-20, San Francisco, CA > The must-attend event for mobile developers. Connect with experts. > Get tools for creating Super Apps. See the latest technologies. > Sessions, hands-on labs, demos & much more. Register early & save! > http://p.sf.net/sfu/rim-blackberry-1 > _______________________________________________ > Flightgear-devel mailing list > Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ BlackBerry® DevCon Americas, Oct. 18-20, San Francisco, CA The must-attend event for mobile developers. Connect with experts. Get tools for creating Super Apps. See the latest technologies. Sessions, hands-on labs, demos & much more. Register early & save! http://p.sf.net/sfu/rim-blackberry-1 _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
