Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear Prerelease 0.9.11 some testresults

2007-12-02 Thread Durk Talsma
On Thursday 29 November 2007 16:34, Torsten Dreyer wrote: Am Donnerstag, 29. November 2007 14:44 schrieb Hans Fugal: Is there not a way to sanity check the cloud cache size in the plib version before going ahead and segfaulting? Like notice that it's 0 and set it to the lowest valid value.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear Prerelease 0.9.11 some testresults

2007-11-30 Thread Lee Duke
*To:* FlightGear developers discussions *Subject:* Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear Prerelease 0.9.11 some testresults How about /0.x.y/ where /x/ and /y /can be variables and everyone can just choose their favorite or preferred numbers rather than filling my in box

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear Prerelease 0.9.11 some testresults

2007-11-30 Thread Richard Bytheway
It seems to me that we are discussing the issue right now, but we are in danger of getting side tracked. Maybe we should put it out to a vote? We've only had a few people weigh in here, which likely means the rest of the developers don't care, or it's not a battle they think is worth fighting.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear Prerelease 0.9.11 some testresults

2007-11-30 Thread Bill Galbraith
_ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Curtis Olson Sent: Friday, November 30, 2007 7:52 AM To: FlightGear developers discussions Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear Prerelease 0.9.11 some testresults I'm just a little surpised that the version

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear Prerelease 0.9.11 some testresults

2007-11-30 Thread Curtis Olson
On Nov 30, 2007 1:23 AM, Melchior FRANZ wrote: The problem that I have/had is that you don't say it openly, when you make such a decision -- that you will call it 1.0, which aircraft it will contain etc. All we got was a cryptic hint with tongue in cheek, instead of an I will make the next

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear Prerelease 0.9.11 some testresults

2007-11-30 Thread AnMaster
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Curtis Olson wrote: On Nov 30, 2007 1:23 AM, Melchior FRANZ wrote: The problem that I have/had is that you don't say it openly, when you make such a decision -- that you will call it 1.0, which aircraft it will contain etc. All we got was a

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear Prerelease 0.9.11 some testresults

2007-11-30 Thread Curtis Olson
On Nov 30, 2007 7:11 AM, AnMaster wrote: As timore said on IRC: timoore If we skip 0.9.11, then the terrorists have won Wow, I didn't realize the terrorists had such strong feelings about our next version number! :-) Curt. -- Curtis Olson: http://baron.flightgear.org/~curt/ Unique text:

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear Prerelease 0.9.11 some testresults

2007-11-30 Thread Lee Duke
How about /0.x.y/ where /x/ and /y /can be variables and everyone can just choose their favorite or preferred numbers rather than filling my in box with discussions of which number comes after/ z/. Lee P.S. The correct answer is /z + 1/. Richard Bytheway wrote: It seems to me that we are

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear Prerelease 0.9.11 some testresults

2007-11-30 Thread Bill Galbraith
_ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lee Duke Sent: Friday, November 30, 2007 8:14 AM To: FlightGear developers discussions Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear Prerelease 0.9.11 some testresults How about 0.x.y where x and y can be variables

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear Prerelease 0.9.11 some testresults

2007-11-30 Thread Willie Fleming
Anything other than 0.9.11 means both the terrorists and the tunnel vision of the USAians have triumphed. And BTW as far as most of Europe is concerned a serious terrorist outrage occured 11-9-2001 and 9-11 is just a set of numbers. This is not the place for politics however (which I am happy

[Flightgear-devel] FlightGear Prerelease 0.9.11 some testresults

2007-11-29 Thread Georg Vollnhals
Hi, during the last days I tested FG 0.9.11 Pre using several different scenarios, of course related to my personal interests and therefore only a subset of FG's possibilities. Generally spoken, this is a very stable running version on my system (OpenSUSE 10.2). I could not see any big problems,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear Prerelease 0.9.11 some testresults

2007-11-29 Thread Anders Gidenstam
On Thu, 29 Nov 2007, Georg Vollnhals wrote: 4. 3D clouds crash Selecting 3D clouds in the rendering menu crashes FlightGear after closing the window. When used as a startup parameter FlightGear does not run. Do I remember right that this is an older problem and depending on the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear Prerelease 0.9.11 some testresults

2007-11-29 Thread AnMaster
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Anders Gidenstam wrote: On Thu, 29 Nov 2007, Georg Vollnhals wrote: 4. 3D clouds crash Selecting 3D clouds in the rendering menu crashes FlightGear after closing the window. When used as a startup parameter FlightGear does not run. Do I

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear Prerelease 0.9.11 some testresults

2007-11-29 Thread AnMaster
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Georg Vollnhals wrote: [...] 2. Triangle distorted sky also with Anthrax GUI Although using the Anthrax-GUI, the sky gets triangulated when using a submenu with (orange???) input-fields. This triangle distortion disappears immediatly after

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear Prerelease 0.9.11 some testresults

2007-11-29 Thread Georg Vollnhals
Hans Fugal schrieb: Is there not a way to sanity check the cloud cache size in the plib version before going ahead and segfaulting? Like notice that it's 0 and set it to the lowest valid value. It seems that this would be a simple fix, and that there's really no excuse not to do it.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear Prerelease 0.9.11 some testresults

2007-11-29 Thread Torsten Dreyer
Am Donnerstag, 29. November 2007 14:44 schrieb Hans Fugal: Is there not a way to sanity check the cloud cache size in the plib version before going ahead and segfaulting? Like notice that it's 0 and set it to the lowest valid value. It seems that this would be a simple fix, and that there's

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear Prerelease 0.9.11 some testresults

2007-11-29 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Georg Vollnhals -- Thursday 29 November 2007: 3. Winter textures (partially) broken (same for OSG version) That was IIRC caused by Erik's texture cache, which saved several megabytes formerly wasted texture memory, which is an important improvement. He knows about the breakage of his season

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear Prerelease 0.9.11 some testresults

2007-11-29 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Melchior FRANZ -- Thursday 29 November 2007: That would be easy, but I haven't even committed it, because it has some problems: Oh, and it doesn't respect the true glide slope angle. It always uses 3 degree, although some have 3.5. (But then again, I'm not sure if fgfs makes a difference, so

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear Prerelease 0.9.11 some testresults

2007-11-29 Thread Georg Vollnhals
Melchior FRANZ schrieb: * Melchior FRANZ -- Thursday 29 November 2007: That would be easy, but I haven't even committed it, because it has some problems: Oh, and it doesn't respect the true glide slope angle. It always uses 3 degree, although some have 3.5. (But then again, I'm

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear Prerelease 0.9.11 some testresults

2007-11-29 Thread AJ MacLeod
On Thursday 29 November 2007 20:38:15 Heiko Schulz wrote: There are some things I noticed and two suggestion: -If I check show fps - it does not appear. I have to enlarge and to downsize the window, or to reset FGF for viewing the fps Are you sure you're using the exact --geometry setting you

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear Prerelease 0.9.11 some testresults

2007-11-29 Thread AnMaster
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Heiko Schulz wrote: Hi, There are some things I noticed and two suggestion: -If I check show fps - it does not appear. I have to enlarge and to downsize the window, or to reset FGF for viewing the fps FPS counter show nice here but I

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear Prerelease 0.9.11 some testresults

2007-11-29 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Heiko Schulz -- Thursday 29 November 2007: - stutters with any helicopters at the ground- lifting up is a big problem cause to the stutters. If the heli is in the air the stutters disappear [...] Sounds like the effect that volumetric shadows have, on any complex aircraft near ground, not

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear Prerelease 0.9.11 some testresults

2007-11-29 Thread Heiko Schulz
I did not use any shadows- still haveing a to weak pc I remember something heard about that the cause lies into the collision detect for the ground Hopefully Tim well be soon ready- can't wait to see it! :-) regards HHS --- Melchior FRANZ [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: * Heiko Schulz --

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear Prerelease 0.9.11 some testresults

2007-11-29 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Georg Vollnhals -- Thursday 29 November 2007: Could you imagine to put this nasal file into the Nasal folder of the upcoming release *deactivated*, ie. named gstunnel.nas.off or something like that? Better fix the problems that can be fixed and put it as regular file. :-) I made the script

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear Prerelease 0.9.11 some testresults

2007-11-29 Thread AnMaster
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Melchior FRANZ wrote: * Heiko Schulz -- Thursday 29 November 2007: - stutters with any helicopters at the ground- lifting up is a big problem cause to the stutters. If the heli is in the air the stutters disappear [...] Sounds like the effect

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear Prerelease 0.9.11 some testresults

2007-11-29 Thread Heiko Schulz
--- AJ MacLeod [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: On Thursday 29 November 2007 20:38:15 Heiko Schulz wrote: There are some things I noticed and two suggestion: -If I check show fps - it does not appear. I have to enlarge and to downsize the window, or to reset FGF for viewing the fps Are

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear Prerelease 0.9.11 some testresults

2007-11-29 Thread Curtis Olson
On Nov 29, 2007 2:56 PM, AJ MacLeod wrote: I would strongly disagree with that - with every respect for those who were affected by the events you mention, it's only a set of numbers (not even a date, in any recognisable format), and since 0.9.11 comes right after 0.9.10, it's only logical

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear Prerelease 0.9.11 some testresults

2007-11-29 Thread gerard robin
On jeu 29 novembre 2007, Melchior FRANZ wrote: * Georg Vollnhals -- Thursday 29 November 2007: Could you imagine to put this nasal file into the Nasal folder of the upcoming release *deactivated*, ie. named gstunnel.nas.off or something like that? Better fix the problems that can be fixed

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear Prerelease 0.9.11 some testresults

2007-11-29 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Curtis Olson -- Thursday 29 November 2007: Everyone seems to agree that version numbers are an arbitrary set of numbers [...] No, you got that backwards. From reading the thread it was clear that people consider a sane version number more important than politics, such as avoiding 0.9.11

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear Prerelease 0.9.11 some testresults

2007-11-29 Thread Georg Vollnhals
gerard robin schrieb: On jeu 29 novembre 2007, Melchior FRANZ wrote: * Georg Vollnhals -- Thursday 29 November 2007: Could you imagine to put this nasal file into the Nasal folder of the upcoming release *deactivated*, ie. named gstunnel.nas.off or something like that?

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear Prerelease 0.9.11 some testresults

2007-11-29 Thread Heiko Schulz
--- Melchior FRANZ [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: * Curtis Olson -- Thursday 29 November 2007: Everyone seems to agree that version numbers are an arbitrary set of numbers [...] No, you got that backwards. From reading the thread it was clear that people consider a sane version number

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear Prerelease 0.9.11 some testresults

2007-11-29 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Georg Vollnhals -- Thursday 29 November 2007: gerard robin schrieb: It is not Autopilot, however it is an help to pilot, it could be in the autopilot item Yes, maybe. * Georg Vollnhals -- Thursday 29 November 2007: First to say, I made some testflights at EDDW and it works fine if I

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear Prerelease 0.9.11 some testresults

2007-11-29 Thread AJ MacLeod
On Thursday 29 November 2007 21:54:05 Curtis Olson wrote: But then most people seem to also follow that up with very strongly held opinions about what the version number should be. As we've seen from just a few postings in this thread, there is a variety incompatible, yet strongly held

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear Prerelease 0.9.11 some testresults

2007-11-29 Thread Curtis Olson
On Nov 29, 2007 4:13 PM, Melchior FRANZ wrote: No, you got that backwards. From reading the thread it was clear that people consider a sane version number more important than politics, such as avoiding 0.9.11 because of the incident. I think your message at least confirms my point that

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear Prerelease 0.9.11 some testresults

2007-11-29 Thread Georg Vollnhals
Melchior FRANZ schrieb: * Georg Vollnhals -- Thursday 29 November 2007: First to say, I made some testflights at EDDW and it works fine if I set the wind with [EMAIL PROTECTED]. Then I tried to make it easier from the startup and switch the property on with

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear Prerelease 0.9.11 some testresults

2007-11-29 Thread Georg Vollnhals
Georg Vollnhals schrieb: Melchior FRANZ schrieb: * Georg Vollnhals -- Thursday 29 November 2007: First to say, I made some testflights at EDDW and it works fine if I set the wind with [EMAIL PROTECTED]. Then I tried to make it easier from the startup and switch the property on

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear Prerelease 0.9.11 some testresults

2007-11-29 Thread LeeE
On Thursday 29 November 2007 23:25, Curtis Olson wrote: [snip...] How about I say it this way ... our version number system has become too tedious and ponderous. And are you suggesting that a 10 year old mature software product can't be allowed a v1.0 version number? It's never going to be

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear Prerelease 0.9.11 some testresults

2007-11-29 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Curtis Olson -- Friday 30 November 2007: [...] So if you have a problem, please state it clearly The problem that I have/had is that you don't say it openly, when you make such a decision -- that you will call it 1.0, which aircraft it will contain etc. All we got was a cryptic hint with