Re: [Flightgear-devel] former project policies

2007-11-21 Thread Maik Justus
Hi, Melchior FRANZ schrieb am 21.11.2007 13:33: > (Also, all aircraft should support > startup in air, and I must admit that this doesn't even work for > the bo105.) > This is my fault, not yours. It's on my open point list (since a long time :-( ) Maik --

Re: [Flightgear-devel] former project policies

2007-11-21 Thread Anders Gidenstam
On Wed, 21 Nov 2007, Stewart Andreason wrote: > I am currently following the second option, as the rgb and ac files must > be in the same directory to work. If you don't need to change the .ac or the textures you only need to copy the XML file. You'll need to add some '../'s to the path and a

Re: [Flightgear-devel] former project policies

2007-11-21 Thread Stewart Andreason
I was interested in finding out if my model followed the rules, and came up with a question: If I want to use a generic instrument, but need to modify the xml file slightly, would it be best to place that new instrument.xml file under the generic directory, or copy the entire instrument package

Re: [Flightgear-devel] former project policies

2007-11-21 Thread Willie Fleming
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Wednesday 21 November 2007 13:11:36 Jon Stockill wrote: > Melchior FRANZ wrote: > > CVS isn't a dumping ground for secrets. Everything there should be > > open. And being open also means to be understandable by as big an > > audience as possible. I'm just not able to learn Greek

Re: [Flightgear-devel] former project policies

2007-11-21 Thread Jon Stockill
Melchior FRANZ wrote: > CVS isn't a dumping ground for secrets. Everything there should be > open. And being open also means to be understandable by as big an > audience as possible. I'm just not able to learn Greek, Chinese, > Swahili, ... We all hate English, but it's the lowest common > denomin

Re: [Flightgear-devel] former project policies

2007-11-21 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* gerard robin -- Wednesday 21 November 2007: > AND, the recommendation to use "English" is less easy when we are > not "English speaking" , this will be an add on of work for the developer. I didn't say that filenames/comments/function-names shall be in perfect English, nor in English better th

Re: [Flightgear-devel] former project policies

2007-11-21 Thread AnMaster
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 About global settings: this would affect the generic HUD too right? Quite a few aircrafts prevents you from turing on the generic HUD (I agree that it may not be realistic for the aircraft, but it is very useful when you try an aircraft for the first

Re: [Flightgear-devel] former project policies

2007-11-21 Thread gerard robin
On mer 21 novembre 2007, gerard robin wrote: > On mer 21 novembre 2007, Melchior FRANZ wrote: > > I've now written together some rules for aircraft developers that I > > used to consider official project policies. After recent difficulties > > to persuade developers to consider them, I will no long

Re: [Flightgear-devel] former project policies

2007-11-21 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* gerard robin -- Wednesday 21 November 2007: > I only wonder about => SGI textures (*.rgb) shall be "aggressively" > since i remember getting trouble with that format > Thought i have not tested it recently, [...] There was a problem with compressed splash textures, but that was a bug in fgf

Re: [Flightgear-devel] former project policies

2007-11-21 Thread gerard robin
On mer 21 novembre 2007, Melchior FRANZ wrote: > I've now written together some rules for aircraft developers that I > used to consider official project policies. After recent difficulties > to persuade developers to consider them, I will no longer care about > them and will only fix buggy aircraft