Re: [Flightgear-devel] Generating ground textures on the fly?

2013-03-13 Thread Renk Thorsten
Hi Tom, sorry if I sound overly pessimistic, but... several of the potential issues are structurally not that different from problems I've encountered in painting terrain or setting up credible weather. it doesn't mean that I am in any way against your plan, but I want to see if you have any

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 2.10.1

2013-03-13 Thread Saikrishna Arcot
Just to check, will both Flightgear and Simgear be updated to 2.10.1, or just Flightgear? Saikrishna Arcot On Wed 13 Mar 2013 08:31:40 AM CDT, James Turner wrote: Hi, As previously suggested, I am going to attempt a 2.10.1 release, to see if this improves our perceived quality. There's

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 2.10.1

2013-03-13 Thread Curtis Olson
Hi James, sounds good, even if there are only a small number (1 or more) important fixes. Would it make sense to amend our release procedure (Torsten) :-) to include a subsection on sub-release procedures. Under the hood we probably repeat most of the full release procedure, but maybe we'd want

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 2.10.1

2013-03-13 Thread Gijs de Rooy
So far I can think of two fixes: 0b04458e99689a30f668d1b37bce93fa55149a2b b71e703d75d19dff698b38177f319c6baa76a277 Will let you know when I find more. Gijs -- Everyone hates slow

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 2.10.1

2013-03-13 Thread James Turner
On 13 Mar 2013, at 13:51, Gijs de Rooy gijsr...@hotmail.com wrote: 0b04458e99689a30f668d1b37bce93fa55149a2b b71e703d75d19dff698b38177f319c6baa76a277 You know, saying which repository, and a one line description of the fix, would really save me some typing and git calls :) James

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 2.10.1

2013-03-13 Thread James Turner
On 13 Mar 2013, at 13:35, Saikrishna Arcot saiarcot...@gmail.com wrote: Just to check, will both Flightgear and Simgear be updated to 2.10.1, or just Flightgear? All three - simgear, flightgear and fgdata - since the fixes span all three. James

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Compasses, magnetic variation, and stuff

2013-03-13 Thread Curtis Olson
On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 10:20 AM, Torsten Dreyer tors...@t3r.de wrote: Yes, it's very interesting. My chart for Ireland specifically warns about the large variation (+5W) which I'm sure catches people out. And that's before you have to add variation due to the airframe ! nitpicking which

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 2.10.1

2013-03-13 Thread Gary Neely
On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 9:31 AM, James Turner zakal...@mac.com wrote: Hi, As previously suggested, I am going to attempt a 2.10.1 release, to see if this improves our perceived quality. There's some bug fixes I am already aware of, including a Windows path-handling one which is quite

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Compasses, magnetic variation, and stuff

2013-03-13 Thread Alasdair Campbell
On 13/03/13 15:37, Curtis Olson wrote: On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 10:20 AM, Torsten Dreyer tors...@t3r.de mailto:tors...@t3r.de wrote: Yes, it's very interesting. My chart for Ireland specifically warns about the large variation (+5W) which I'm sure catches people out. And

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 2.10.1

2013-03-13 Thread Frederic Bouvier
Hi, - Mail original - De: Gary Neely grne...@gmail.com On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 9:31 AM, James Turner zakal...@mac.com wrote: Hi, As previously suggested, I am going to attempt a 2.10.1 release, to see if this improves our perceived quality. There's some bug fixes I am

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 2.10.1

2013-03-13 Thread Frederic Bouvier
With regard to the Windows release, after installing Setup Flightgear 2.10.0.3.exe on Windows XP, when launching fgrun I immediately get the following error/warning: There is no disk in the drive. Please insert a disk into drive D:. It does it upon launch of fgrun, and it will

[Flightgear-devel] fgdata compression

2013-03-13 Thread Saikrishna Arcot
I have a suggestion/proposal for the compression method of the fgdata package: Instead of using tar.bz2, we can use tar.xz (XZ is based on LZMA) to get a lower compression ratio. Based on comparisons done by other people, here are the effects: + Less time for decompression compared to bzip2. +