Thorsten, Thanks. Your response was cleared up a lot.
I had been wondering how the personal relationships between the flightgear project and the distributions actually worked. I was also wondering if the process of getting flightgear into distributions was broken and needed fixing or not. If I understand your comments, the process is not broken and is working as well as can be expected. Also, If I read you right, you and perhaps others are already involved with some distributions and don't particularly want to take over responsibility for packaging flightgear, but will work with distro specific flightgear package maintainers to keep the packaging process flying level by making appropriate changes in flightgear. What can we do to make this kind of activity more visible so folks like me have an opportunity to help in small ways. -Pat > Yes, it would still be nice to have a universal build. And I guess, > ThorstenR (and probably others) think we're therefore doing a lousy > job and should just spend more time on FG - like work full time to > provide you the perfect service that you clearly all deserve (and for > free, of course) :). > We would never say that. I have about 15 minutes a day of free time and know exactly what you mean. (Its time for dinner and Jeopardy as I'm writing this) > But at times you notice live is really short. You really need to > think about what you want to do, and on which things you really want > to spend your precious spare time on. And do I personally want to be > responsible for building a package that runs on *any* Linux distro in > the universe - and to somehow take care of all their ugly tweaks? To > be frank: no. > Amen! > The advantage of the current approach is: it distributes the work. It > involves people which actually know and care about their individual > distros - and, at least I do not need to do it all on my own. Yes, it > may mean there's an extra latency before a new version becomes > available for some distros. But is it really _so_ bad, like Debian > users apparently seeing an 8 month delay? Or that Linux users may > need to update their OS every 2 years (well, you have to update > anyway, since maintenance and security updates stop). Nothing at all wrong. Some of us just need to understand, and you've explained it well. > Also, to me it > feels like the really hard-core Linux FlightGear people, which > _really_ care about running the very latest version (people like > you!), even consider FG 2.8 outdated - and directly run Git instead. > Updating weekly... ;-) > > If, however, anyone feels he could do it - provide a universal > installation - or run a build which produces packages for every > distro - you'll surely get my support. I'm also happy to accept merge > requests on the OBS, if anyone can really get the cross-platform > build to work. > What's an OBS. (Don't answer that I'll look it up ...) <snip> Gotta run. Biscuits are ready to come out of the oven. -Pat ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Keep yourself connected to Go Parallel: VERIFY Test and improve your parallel project with help from experts and peers. http://goparallel.sourceforge.net _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
