Re: [Flightgear-devel] Compiler/OS Version Question

2002-09-22 Thread Norman Vine
Curtis L. Olson writes: Jonathan Polley writes: I have a few questions brought about by some recent experiences, but what they boil down to is Are we going to reestablish the minimun system requirements for FlightGear. First, due to deficiencies in the compiler, it is becoming more

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Still can't build devel CVS

2002-09-22 Thread Norman Vine
Curtis L. Olson writes: Usually my common mistaek is to statr reversing letter piars when I get really tired or overly pumpde up on caffiene, and I remember taking about 4 tires to type that in before I got it right. Srory about that. Good one :-) this is currently $(EXTRA_SOURCES)

[Flightgear-devel] Demo hardware

2002-09-22 Thread Erik Hofman
How about this for demonstration purposes? http://openbrick.org/ Erik (Funded from selling the mergendise off course) ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Something like a rant (was: GLenum patch - not ?)

2002-09-22 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Sat, 21 Sep 2002 22:29:22 -0500, Curtis L. Olson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: And if anyone wanted to cover my salary full time to exclusively manage the FlightGear project and do FlightGear development, I could easily keep busy for 50-60 hours a week on it.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] jigdo (Jigsaw Download) - a download manager for CD images

2002-09-22 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Sat, 21 Sep 2002 22:57:28 -0700 (PDT), Alex Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Does anyone have any experience with this ? It looks as if it could be quite useful http://home.in.tum.de/~atterer/jigdo/ ..yes, especially if we develop a FG linux distro to

Re: [Flightgear-devel] jigdo (Jigsaw Download) - a download manager for CD images

2002-09-22 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Sun, 22 Sep 2002 05:13:57 -0400, Norman Vine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message 00f601c26218$625aa500$0100a8c0@sfdev3: Alex Perry Does anyone have any experience with this ? It looks as if it could be quite useful http://home.in.tum.de/~atterer/jigdo/ ..yes, especially if

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Something like a rant (was: GLenum patch - not ?)

2002-09-22 Thread David Megginson
Curtis L. Olson writes: Is there some problem why my GLenum patch wasn't applied to CVS ? I keep getting conflicts when someone makes a minor change to SimGear and (form my point of view) doesn't keep the type cast in place. Did you send the patch to someone who has cvs write

Re: [Flightgear-devel] jigdo (Jigsaw Download) - a download managerfor CD images

2002-09-22 Thread David Megginson
Erik Hofman writes: Is there and equivalant to the WIN32 autorun feature for Linux ? Yes (at least for RedHat). Anything like that is STRONGLY frowned upon in the Linux community -- putting Linux on the desktop shouldn't mean making it as unsafe as Windows. When you're running as root

[Flightgear-devel] Shared Scenery Objects

2002-09-22 Thread David Megginson
For a while now, FlightGear has had support for adding static scenery objects (like buildings) to *.stg scenery files using the syntax OBJECT_STATIC file lon lat elevation-m heading The file is always loaded relative to the current scenery directory (such as

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Shared Scenery Objects

2002-09-22 Thread Bernie Bright
On Sun, 22 Sep 2002 07:53:34 -0400 David Megginson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For a while now, FlightGear has had support for adding static scenery objects (like buildings) to *.stg scenery files using the syntax OBJECT_STATIC file lon lat elevation-m heading The file is always loaded

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Shared Scenery Objects

2002-09-22 Thread David Megginson
Bernie Bright writes: Excellent! Hopefully this will work for texture files referenced by the object. OBJECT_SHARED does work with textures; OBJECT_STATIC does not, yet. I have Frederic Bouvier's patch in my TODO queue, but I want to study it closely before I commit it. FWIW I'm

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Shared Scenery Objects

2002-09-22 Thread David Megginson
Bernie Bright writes: FWIW I'm working on importing XPlane custom objects and many of them share textures. I already have the SFO terminal and Golden Gate bridge loading. Are those redistributable? They are freeware and may be redistributed as long as it is not for

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Help: Current Ground Elevation

2002-09-22 Thread Jon Stockill
On Sun, 22 Sep 2002, Curtis L. Olson wrote: It would also be nice to do interesections at tile load time so when you specify objects in the .stg file, you can just give them a lat/lon and let the system position them correclty on the ground surface. That would be *extremely* useful. I'm

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Shared Scenery Objects

2002-09-22 Thread Bernie Bright
On Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:00:18 -0400 David Megginson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It would be nice to set them up as a separate download, but we will need these in the base package soon, so unless the author is willing to change the terms, we'll have to reproduce them outselves. I think that we