[Flightgear-devel] Problem with modified apt.dat file

2010-01-19 Thread Andrew Gillanders
Hello all, I am having trouble with an updated apt.dat file. I think it is with compressing it. I used the command 'tar cfz apt.dat.gz apt.dat'. Is this correct? When I put the compressed file into FG, but there were problems loading. First, it fell over on line 2 (the version number and

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Native WIN32 MSVC9 build error

2010-01-19 Thread Geoff McLane
Sorry about the delay, but took me a while to get back into WIN32 building... My error! Somehow I missed the SG CVS update... so my last successful WIN32 build is now a few days ago ;=)) Accordingly I have updated my FG build site - http://geoffair.net/fg/fgfs-047.htm including MSVC9 binaries,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Problem with modified apt.dat file

2010-01-19 Thread jean pellotier
Andrew Gillanders a écrit : Hello all, I am having trouble with an updated apt.dat file. I think it is with compressing it. I used the command 'tar cfz apt.dat.gz apt.dat'. Is this correct? to me it should be 'gzip apt.dat' BTW, you can put apt.dat uncompressed in FG, fg will load

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Problem with modified apt.dat file

2010-01-19 Thread Csaba Halász
On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 11:51 AM, Andrew Gillanders andrew.gilland...@uqconnect.edu.au wrote: I am having trouble with an updated apt.dat file. I think it is with compressing it. I used the command 'tar cfz apt.dat.gz apt.dat'. Is this correct? Nope, you don't want to tar it, just gzip. --

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Problem with modified apt.dat file

2010-01-19 Thread Jari Häkkinen
Judging from the extension .gz the command to use is gzip not tar. For compressed tar I'd expect extension .tgz or .tar.gz. Try 'gzip apt.dat' instead. Jari On 1/19/10 11:51 AM, Andrew Gillanders wrote: Hello all, I am having trouble with an updated apt.dat file. I think it is with

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Problem with modified apt.dat file

2010-01-19 Thread Torsten Dreyer
Am 19.01.2010 um 13:22 schrieb jean pellotier: Andrew Gillanders a écrit : Hello all, I am having trouble with an updated apt.dat file. I think it is with compressing it. I used the command 'tar cfz apt.dat.gz apt.dat'. Is this correct? to me it should be 'gzip apt.dat' BTW,

[Flightgear-devel] RFC: Eye catching graphics in 2.0.0 / Splash screen update

2010-01-19 Thread Durk Talsma
Hi all, This morning I installed a FlightGear 2.0.0 release candidate on my windows machine at work. One thing that I noticed immediately is that the graphics looked really slick: The new splash screen for the C172p, the impressive 3D clouds, and the new terminal buildings at KSFO. I didn't

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Nominations for Aircraft Selection in theFlightGear 2.0 Release

2010-01-19 Thread Durk Talsma
Hi Gijs, On Monday 18 January 2010 06:50:03 pm Gijs de Rooy wrote: PS: Durk, it might be nice to share atleast a week-of-release with us, so we know how much time we can work on fixing our stuff before the release... You're right. Our deadline for code and data submissions is tentatively set

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Nominations for Aircraft Selection in theFlightGear 2.0 Release

2010-01-19 Thread Heiko Schulz
Hi, You're right. Our deadline for code and data submissions is tentatively set to Sunday, 24 January 2010, 18:00 UTC. That is, I'm planning to start tagging the data repository sometime after 7:00PM CET. Sounds o.k. After that, we're allowing ourselves approximately one week to build the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Nominations for Aircraft Selection in the FlightGear 2.0 Release

2010-01-19 Thread Stuart Buchanan
Durk wrote: It looks like this is becoming a bit of an annual tradition: With each new major release, we are evaluating which aircraft we wish to highlight by including them in the base package. Due to time constrains, we have fallen a bit behind with the release process this year.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Nominations for Aircraft Selection in theFlightGear 2.0 Release

2010-01-19 Thread Durk Talsma
Hi Heiko, On Tuesday 19 January 2010 09:58:26 pm Heiko Schulz wrote: Final release just after a week testing without official RC-candidates? Whooo very brave! :-( Please note that there is currently a second release candidate available for windows. (Based on a build by Fred). RC1 for

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Nominations for Aircraft Selection in theFlightGear 2.0 Release

2010-01-19 Thread Durk Talsma
On Tuesday 19 January 2010 11:08:59 pm Durk Talsma wrote: Please note that there is currently a second release candidate available for windows. (Based on a build by Fred). RC1 for window was skipped to stay synchronized with the mac release candidates: Also note that Tat has already made two

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Nominations for Aircraft Selection in theFlightGear 2.0 Release

2010-01-19 Thread Frederic Bouvier
- Durk Talsma a écrit : On Tuesday 19 January 2010 11:08:59 pm Durk Talsma wrote: Please note that there is currently a second release candidate available for windows. (Based on a build by Fred). RC1 for window was skipped to stay synchronized with the mac release candidates:

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Nominations for Aircraft Selection in theFlightGear 2.0 Release

2010-01-19 Thread Heiko Schulz
Hi Durk, Please note that there is currently a second release candidate available for windows.  (Based on a build by Fred). RC1 for window was skipped to stay synchronized with the mac release candidates: http://www.xs4all.nl/~dtalsma/fgsetup-2.0.0-RC2.exe.torrent Also note that

Re: [Flightgear-devel] tagged v2.0.0-rc2

2010-01-19 Thread Victhor
One minor issue I noticed is that the Brazillian daylight saving time has some issues in FG. Some regions that don't comply to DST are with the DST local time in FG. -- Throughout its 18-year history, RSA Conference