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

2009-07-08 Thread Mathias Fröhlich
Hi, So sorry for the long delay. On Wednesday 01 July 2009 16:29:23 Petr Gotthard wrote: > The "basic" HLA standard (both DoD and IEEE variant) provides only a C++ > API compatibility at a compile-level. There is a SISO standard that should > assure dynamic link compatibility (DLC). However, som

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

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

2009-06-26 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

2009-06-26 Thread Gene Buckle
> 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 the GP

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

2009-06-26 Thread Erik Hofman
Petr Gotthard wrote: > Let me advocate the idea: > I'm proposing a generic interface. If you look from the other side, it's a > possibility to easily implement a new I/O module for FlightGear. To help > people that might be interested to extend FlightGear but do not want to > recompile the who

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 >> shared module (.dll or .so) for a partic