RE: [Flightgear-devel] Re:[Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS:data preferences.xml, 1.161, 1.162

2004-12-01 Thread Vivian Meazza
Curt wrote: As a project, FlightGear needs to depend on the stable releases of the stuff it depends on, not cvs development trees. That get's to be too big of a mess. Many distributions include the latest stable version of plib, and that is often easier to build. It's ok for developers to

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re:[Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS:data preferences.xml, 1.161, 1.162

2004-12-01 Thread Erik Hofman
Vivian Meazza wrote: So we have the situation where at least some of the current binary releases, do not follow this policy. The Windows for one seems to accept the crease token. The policy is not meant for the binary releases. A binary-release maintainer may even chose to use plib-1.7.3 if

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Re:[Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS:data preferences.xml, 1.161, 1.162

2004-12-01 Thread Frederic Bouvier
Vivian Meazza wrote: So we have the situation where at least some of the current binary releases, do not follow this policy. The Windows for one seems to accept the crease token. Binary releases, by definition, are not meant to be rebuild, so the hassle of collecting patches and making all

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Re:[Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS:data preferences.xml, 1.161, 1.162

2004-12-01 Thread Vivian Meazza
Erik Hofman wrote: Vivian Meazza wrote: So we have the situation where at least some of the current binary releases, do not follow this policy. The Windows for one seems to accept the crease token. The policy is not meant for the binary releases. A binary-release maintainer may

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re:[Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS:data preferences.xml, 1.161, 1.162

2004-12-01 Thread Erik Hofman
Vivian Meazza wrote: Erik Hofman wrote: The policy is not meant for the binary releases. A binary-release maintainer may even chose to use plib-1.7.3 if he/she wishes to do so. The policy is to make it _work_ with the latest official plib release. Now I'm confused. Make what work? Sorry, I

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Re:[Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS:data preferences.xml, 1.161, 1.162

2004-12-01 Thread Frederic Bouvier
Quoting Vivian Meazza : The patch has been committed to plib CVS. Now we only (...) need to convince them to release a new stable version. Excellent news, what about the joystick problem? not committed yet, but I just asked again on the plib list. -Fred

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Re: [Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS:data preferences.xml, 1.161, 1.162

2004-11-30 Thread Vivian Meazza
Melchior FRANZ * Jon Stockill -- Tuesday 30 November 2004 16:39: At 03:47 today. Modified Files: nimitz.ac Log Message: Remove crease tag so that people without custom patched versions of plib can still run FlightGear. :-) Yes, and at ... um ... right *now*: $ cd

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: [Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS:data preferences.xml, 1.161, 1.162

2004-11-30 Thread David Megginson
On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 18:40:53 -, Vivian Meazza [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry guys, I sent today's Nimitz before I realized that Curt was removing crease tokens. Mind you, after all the effort we went to get it in ... I'm a bit confused here. Mathias submitted a patch to plib, and I thought

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: [Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS:data preferences.xml, 1.161, 1.162

2004-11-30 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Vivian Meazza wrote: Sorry guys, I sent today's Nimitz before I realized that Curt was removing crease tokens. Mind you, after all the effort we went to get it in ... I'm a bit confused here. Mathias submitted a patch to plib, and I thought that Wolfram Kuss had uploaded it. What's the problem -