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

2010-06-06 Thread Michael Sgier
: [Flightgear-devel] Uncompressing apt.dat et al To: FlightGear developers discussions flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Date: Sunday, June 6, 2010, 7:27 AM 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

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

2010-06-06 Thread Martin Spott
Ron Jensen wrote: However, I think it would be better to unzip nav.dat and apt.dat in our git so that local changes can be made and tracked. We are staying with an obsolete version of apt.dat for the near future so Robin won't be maintaining it for us. As long as we're sticking to

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

2010-06-06 Thread Martin Spott
Michael Sgier wrote: Maintaining an obsolete apt.dat is a waste of time. Better teaming up on integrating the current 8.5 format. You're invited to team up for the sake of saving us from wasting our time It works perfectly on X-Plane so why shouldn't it do the same in FG. but

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

2010-06-06 Thread Ron Jensen
On Sunday 06 June 2010 05:25:14 Martin Spott wrote: Ron Jensen wrote: However, I think it would be better to unzip nav.dat and apt.dat in our git so that local changes can be made and tracked. We are staying with an obsolete version of apt.dat for the near future so Robin won't be

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 would be