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

2010-06-05 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 wrote: From: Ron Jensen Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] Uncompressing apt.dat et al T

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

2010-06-05 Thread Ron Jensen
On Saturday 05 June 2010 20:51:45 George Patterson wrote: > The file nav.dat is a database supplied by Robin Peel and (AFAIK) is > not intended to be updated by the FG project. If there are mistakes or > omissions they should be submitted upstream. > > Regards > > > George However, I think it wou

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FG_ROOT git

2010-06-05 Thread George Patterson
On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 10:47 AM, Peter Morgan wrote: > This aint working for me.. > its a 2.5gig package and lots of bandwith for the "core" pancake. > the core "snaphost" includes ALL the aircraft and more that 40%+ abandoned.. > redundant space. shite load of DEAD files... > Aircraft deginers

[Flightgear-devel] FG_ROOT git

2010-06-05 Thread Peter Morgan
This aint working for me.. its a 2.5gig package and lots of bandwith for the "core" pancake. the core "snaphost" includes ALL the aircraft and more that 40%+ abandoned.. redundant space. shite load of DEAD files... Aircraft deginers cannot MOVE beacause it means updating whole tree.. Coders (eg

Re: [Flightgear-devel] mirroring flightgear / scenery

2010-06-05 Thread Peter Morgan
Guess the "make/blow DVD" script is not in CVS ? and will it available, and where ? On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 1:10 AM, Peter Morgan wrote: > Are your considering modern methods such as torrents and DVD and Memstick > edible nuggets.. > > even virtual machiens that do the process.. > > U are ob

Re: [Flightgear-devel] mirroring flightgear / scenery

2010-06-05 Thread Peter Morgan
Are your considering modern methods such as torrents and DVD and Memstick edible nuggets.. even virtual machiens that do the process.. U are obviously not making millions yet... Why are you not at TAG.. Pete I'm in for paying £100 toward flying CURT to linux tag this year.. give him a few beer

Re: [Flightgear-devel] outerra news

2010-06-05 Thread David Megginson
Maybe we should consider moving to a different OpenSource scenery package. Nothing met our needs in the late 1990s, but I'm sure they've progressed since then. David On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 8:59 PM, Peter Morgan wrote: > Is there a begginers guide ? > I've been down this path before got stuck w