Re: [Flightgear-devel] Uncompressing apt.dat et al

2010-06-06 Thread Michael Sgier
Maintaining an obsolete apt.dat is a waste of time. Better teaming up on integrating the current 8.5 format. It works perfectly on X-Plane so why shouldn't it do the same in FG. --- On Sun, 6/6/10, Ron Jensen w...@jentronics.com wrote: From: Ron Jensen w...@jentronics.com Subject: Re:

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Uncompressing apt.dat et al

2010-06-06 Thread Martin Spott
Ron Jensen wrote: However, I think it would be better to unzip nav.dat and apt.dat in our git so that local changes can be made and tracked. We are staying with an obsolete version of apt.dat for the near future so Robin won't be maintaining it for us. As long as we're sticking to

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Uncompressing apt.dat et al

2010-06-06 Thread Martin Spott
Michael Sgier wrote: Maintaining an obsolete apt.dat is a waste of time. Better teaming up on integrating the current 8.5 format. You're invited to team up for the sake of saving us from wasting our time It works perfectly on X-Plane so why shouldn't it do the same in FG. but

Re: [Flightgear-devel] outerra news

2010-06-06 Thread Martin Spott
Hi David, David Megginson wrote: Maybe we should consider moving to a different OpenSource scenery package. I'd be happy to read a more elaborate statement of what you're having in mind. What is the term scenery package supposed to mean ? Cheers, Martin. -- Unix _IS_ user friendly

Re: [Flightgear-devel] outerra news

2010-06-06 Thread Martin Spott
Peter Morgan wrote: Is there a begginers guide ? There's a couple of TerraGear-related articles on The Wiki - plus the source code an included comments. Cheers, Martin. -- Unix _IS_ user friendly - it's just selective about who its friends are !

Re: [Flightgear-devel] outerra news

2010-06-06 Thread David Megginson
On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 7:35 AM, Martin Spott martin.sp...@mgras.net wrote: Maybe we should consider moving to a different OpenSource scenery package. I'd be happy to read a more elaborate statement of what you're having in mind. What is the term scenery package supposed to mean ? An

Re: [Flightgear-devel] outerra news

2010-06-06 Thread Martin Spott
David Megginson wrote: On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 7:35 AM, Martin Spott wrote: I'd be happy to read a more elaborate statement of what you're having in mind. What is the term scenery package supposed to mean ? An Open-Source package including scenery-generation tools and a scenery-rendering

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Uncompressing apt.dat et al

2010-06-06 Thread Ron Jensen
On Sunday 06 June 2010 05:25:14 Martin Spott wrote: Ron Jensen wrote: However, I think it would be better to unzip nav.dat and apt.dat in our git so that local changes can be made and tracked. We are staying with an obsolete version of apt.dat for the near future so Robin won't be

[Flightgear-devel] Request For Comments Proposed FG euroDev Conference Lelystad 6-7 November

2010-06-06 Thread willie
Would there be any interest in an informal conference of developers/enthusiasts to run concurrently/after the FSWeekend (www.fsweekend.com) in Lelystat Netherlands at the beginning of November? All comments welcome. -- Best Regards Willie