Re: [Flightgear-devel] [Flightgear-users] World Scenery 1.0.1 (final directory comparison)

2008-11-11 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Melchior FRANZ -- Wednesday 05 November 2008: > * Curtis Olson -- 11/3/2008 4:46 PM: > > - If it was me doing this, I would suggest something like: > > Airports/L/LO/LOX/LOXA.xml (just the one file per airport) > > As I wrote previously, if we drop the requirement to have > separated files per a

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [Flightgear-users] World Scenery 1.0.1 (final directory comparison)

2008-11-05 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Curtis Olson -- 11/3/2008 4:46 PM: > - If it was me doing this, I would suggest something like: > Airports/L/LO/LOX/LOXA.xml (just the one file per airport) As I wrote previously, if we drop the requirement to have separated files per airport, then I'd go with Curt's layout. Of course, this make

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [Flightgear-users] World Scenery 1.0.1 (final directory comparison )

2008-11-04 Thread Ron Jensen
On Tue, 2008-11-04 at 22:19 +0100, Durk Talsma wrote: > On Tuesday 04 November 2008 21:26:18 Syd wrote: > Hi Syd, > > > Ok my turn :) > > I found Ron's comment about not being welcome to create scenery a bit > > disturbing ... why? > > Just to make a slightly off thread comment: All I can say is

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [Flightgear-users] World Scenery 1.0.1 (final directory comparison )

2008-11-04 Thread Syd
Thanks guys , I think I understand the purpose now. I was referring to adding airport building at CYVR , I haven't tried actually modifying the terrain or airport layout . Cheers - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Mobl

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [Flightgear-users] World Scenery 1.0.1 (final directory comparison )

2008-11-04 Thread Durk Talsma
On Tuesday 04 November 2008 21:26:18 Syd wrote: Hi Syd, > Ok my turn :) > I found Ron's comment about not being welcome to create scenery a bit > disturbing ... why? Just to make a slightly off thread comment: All I can say is that Ron's comments on this list have been courteous and professional

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [Flightgear-users] World Scenery 1.0.1 (final directory comparison )

2008-11-04 Thread Syd
Ok my turn :) I found Ron's comment about not being welcome to create scenery a bit disturbing ... why? So I'll ask a dumb , non developer question: What exactly is the purpose of this directory setup ? Will it affect my own attempt to update local scenery ?Is it meant to make scenery additions

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [Flightgear-users] World Scenery 1.0.1 (final directory comparison)

2008-11-04 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Tue, 04 Nov 2008 10:21:30 +0100, Melchior wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Yes, because the need to have many files per airport was actually your > only argument. I based my final suggestion on that "requirement". But, > ok, let's go with the on-file-per-airport approach. I actually fin

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [Flightgear-users] World Scenery 1.0.1 (final directory comparison )

2008-11-04 Thread gerard robin
On mardi 04 novembre 2008, Ron Jensen wrote: > On Tue, 2008-11-04 at 14:27 +0100, Melchior FRANZ wrote: > > * Ron Jensen -- 11/4/2008 1:15 PM: > > > I'll shut up now since I've already been told I'm not a "real" > > > FlightGear developer and I'm not welcome to create scenery. > > > > I hope that w

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [Flightgear-users] World Scenery 1.0.1 (final directory comparison)

2008-11-04 Thread Ron Jensen
On Tue, 2008-11-04 at 14:27 +0100, Melchior FRANZ wrote: > * Ron Jensen -- 11/4/2008 1:15 PM: > > I'll shut up now since I've already been told I'm not a "real" > > FlightGear developer and I'm not welcome to create scenery. > > I hope that wasn't me. I don't label people "real" or "non-real" > s

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [Flightgear-users] World Scenery 1.0.1 (final directory comparison)

2008-11-04 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Ron Jensen -- 11/4/2008 1:15 PM: > On Tue, 2008-11-04 at 10:01 +0100, Ralf Gerlich wrote: > > I have already provided the arguments in favour of the three-level > > hierarchy. Yes, we were really only arguing over whether a fourth level would be too expensive, and whether organizing files via pr

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [Flightgear-users] World Scenery 1.0.1 (final directory comparison)

2008-11-04 Thread Ralf Gerlich
Ralf Gerlich wrote: > Ron Jensen wrote: >> Managing this in CVS would >> add another 9,681 CVS directories and 29,000 (Entries, Repository and >> Root) files. > > No management in CVS is planned. At least not in this structure. This is a means of data transport, not of data management. Cheers,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [Flightgear-users] World Scenery 1.0.1 (final directory comparison)

2008-11-04 Thread Ralf Gerlich
Ron Jensen wrote: > Managing this in CVS would > add another 9,681 CVS directories and 29,000 (Entries, Repository and > Root) files. No management in CVS is planned. Cheers, Ralf -- Ralf Gerlich | World Custom Scenery Project Computer Scientist| http://www.custom-scenery.o

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [Flightgear-users] World Scenery 1.0.1 (final directory comparison)

2008-11-04 Thread Ron Jensen
On Tue, 2008-11-04 at 10:01 +0100, Ralf Gerlich wrote: > Curtis Olson wrote: > > Is there a reason that we split up each airport's data into at least 5 > > different files? > > There is reason to separate the pure airport geometry data from the > AI-network. Those come from different sources and a

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [Flightgear-users] World Scenery 1.0.1 (final directory comparison)

2008-11-04 Thread Melchior FRANZ
Hi, * Ralf Gerlich -- 11/3/2008 5:29 PM: > why do you take this to the -users list again, where it is obviously > off-topic as a development issue and after I had taken the discussion > where it belongs: to the -devel list? Sorry, that was an accident. I had intended to stop posting to this fruit

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [Flightgear-users] World Scenery 1.0.1 (final directory comparison)

2008-11-04 Thread Ralf Gerlich
Hi Curt! The World Custom Scenery Team has decided - already some time ago - that the scenery release intended for shipping with the planned FlightGear release in December will be the _last_ scenery release produced by the World Custom Scenery Team that is synchronized with the Base Package apt.da

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [Flightgear-users] World Scenery 1.0.1 (final directory comparison)

2008-11-03 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Alex Perry -- 11/3/2008 11:26 PM: > Off topic to Melchior and Ralf's non-technical discussion, but: Better "non-technical" than technical but wrong. ;-) > To truly optimize for load balancing the operating system's directory > searches, This isn't about load balancing at all. It's just abo

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [Flightgear-users] World Scenery 1.0.1 (final directory comparison)

2008-11-03 Thread Alex Perry
Off topic to Melchior and Ralf's non-technical discussion, but: On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 8:29 AM, Ralf Gerlich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The index concept has some similarity to a B-tree > (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B-Tree) in terms of structure, though the > balancing aspect and therefore som

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [Flightgear-users] World Scenery 1.0.1 (final directory comparison)

2008-11-03 Thread Ralf Gerlich
Hi Melchior, why do you take this to the -users list again, where it is obviously off-topic as a development issue and after I had taken the discussion where it belongs: to the -devel list? The proposal as posted in my announcement was designed by a group of developers, not just Martin and me. I