Frederic Bouvier schrieb:
> This is why people prefer to have the sources. Not to hack it, but just to 
> build
> an executable that fits their system. I found that shared library problems are
> worst on Linux than on Windoze. So many distributions, so many vendors and so
> many different versions around ( just look the number of different GCC version
> with their different ABI and different level of C++ compliance ), that, 
> without
> special care, an executable usually only works on the distro it has been build
> for.
>
>   
Thank you for the explanation. What I learned is that it is not only the
32/64bit Problem (what could be solved without big problems) but that
"Linux-A" is not equal to "Linux-B" and that it seems not possible to
compile *one* executive program which runs without problems under all
Linux versions.
I did not know that until now, otherwise I would have been more careful.
> BTW: is FGTools Open Source ?
>
>   
*Yes*
in the sense that everone on the list can get the code from me without
any copyrights and can do with it what he wants. Just drop me a mail.
As I NEVER had the intention to make a "project" but only to SHARE my
personal tools as ready-to-run-programs - like the Win32 FGTools is -
nobody should look for structured code, English comments or any more
professional way one would go if code-sharing is intended.
The core of this program is still a FLY! 2 toolkit I wrote over the
years before I came to FlightGear. I could use many parts as the basic
structures of FLY! 2 and FlightGear are pretty similar.
And I never planned anything. I started with the problem "how to start
FlightGear and Atlas with one keypress at the same time with special
parameters from the Win XP GUI" - FGRun did not support that at this
time as it might now do.
The next was "I need a helper for model placement. No manual
calculations which STG file to use, no manual editing of the STG files,
easy backup of the edited STG files, etc". Then it was making AI-files
without big work, now I am working on semiautomatic creation of
buildings, writing the *.ac files from some simple inputs (length,
width, height, flat roof or other roofs ...).
So FGTools only represents some solutions for repeating work to do to
save time and energy - I am a real lazy guy!
One thing left: the core-code of FGTools would be available now - some
external routines had to cut out of big libraries from projects I am
working on for my job - they are not free as a whole but I would cut out
the FGTools associated functions and put them into a new library. This
could last some time as I now want to finish some scenery projects I am
still working on for a longer time.
*No*
in the meaning that I would publish the code for a wider audience.
Simply, because it is very bad in style and structure and commented in
German.
> -Fred
>
>   
Regards
Georg

-------------------------------------------------------------------------
Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security?
Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier
Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo
http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642
_______________________________________________
Flightgear-users mailing list
[email protected]
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-users

Reply via email to