[Flightgear-devel] [RFC] Dynamic plug-in interface for I/O modules

2009-06-26 Thread Petr Gotthard
Hello, I'd like to bring up again the issue of standalone FlightGear modules (add-ons, plug-ins). You probably hear this question once a while, but I have a new argument. ;-) Although the FlightGear design fairly modular it's provided as a single binary. Everyone who wants to create a new I/O

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [RFC] Dynamic plug-in interface for I/Omodules

2009-06-26 Thread Petr Gotthard
>>Petr Gotthard wrote: >> To follow the "do things right" rule I think it would be great to implement >> a generic interface for standalone I/O modules. Both Micro$oft FSX and >> X-Plane have such interface. The M&S HLA users would just need to build a

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [RFC] Dynamic plug-in interface for I/Omodules

2009-06-26 Thread Petr Gotthard
>> All valid points but irrelevant for the GPL. It is already possible to >> connect proprietary software to FlightGear using the generic binary >> (socket) protocol handler, but that doesn't violate the GPL. Plug-in >> interfaces tend to do because they are considered 'part of the program' >> by t

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [RFC] Dynamic plug-in interface for I/Omodules

2009-07-01 Thread Petr Gotthard
Hi Mathias, Thank you very much for your comments. >So, as far as I knor HLA/RTI, your problem is divided in two parts: >1. The problem with different RTI implementation libraries. >2. The problem with different fom's > >Regarding the RTI libs: >As far as I can see the RTI c++ interface is defi

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [RFC] Dynamic plug-in interface for I/Omodules

2009-07-01 Thread Petr Gotthard
Hi, >I'm (still) against binary runtime modules for FlightGear. And I respect that. >We offer more possibilities than X-plane and MSFS and all the others >put together -- by letting people look at/modify/redistribute our >source code. For free. That's very generous, if you ask me. Yes, that is

[Flightgear-devel] Suggestion to make FlightGear multiplayer compliant with HLA

2008-03-04 Thread Petr Gotthard
Dear FlightGear developers,(a short introduction first: I'm a newcomer to FlightGear, my professional profile can be found at http://www.linkedin.com/in/gotthard) May I ask whether you would be interested on striving to make FlightGear compliant with the US DoD High Level Architecture (HLA)? It

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Suggestion to make FlightGear multiplayer compliant with HLA

2008-03-06 Thread Petr Gotthard
Hi Oliver, the HLA specifications (IEEE 1516) are not free, that's a disadvantage. However there are open-source HLA run-time environments (e.g. http://www.cert.fr/CERTI), so it's not necessary to implement whole new HLA run-time environment. Regarding the multiplayer in FlightGear I see two op