Re: [Flightgear-devel] Howto download aircraft ( and others data ) from Git

2013-09-08 Thread Markus Wanner
On 09/03/2013 03:28 PM, James Turner wrote: > For 3.0 I will be making FGData significantly smaller, since the size of > the Git repo is indeed a big problem. A huge +1 with my packager's hat on. Regards Markus Wanner -

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Howto download aircraft ( and others data ) from Git

2013-09-04 Thread grtuxhangar team
> For 3.0 I will be making FGData significantly smaller, since the size of > the Git repo is indeed a big problem. Some pieces will become truly > optional, and others will be downloaded in different ways. > > However this is all for the future, I'm afraid I don't have a short term > answer. > > >

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Howto download aircraft ( and others data ) from Git

2013-09-03 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Tue, 03 Sep 2013 19:20:58 +0100, James wrote in message <4fdd17d4-a2f2-4bb7-b1fb-a0112dac0...@mac.com>: > And also, well, all the commits relating to SVN ..is this something we should do with git or git-svn instead? I ask because I and Pat play with git-svn in the next version of download_an

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Howto download aircraft ( and others data ) from Git

2013-09-03 Thread Alan Teeder
a little happier now and will be able to wait until the solution appears. Thanks Alan From: James Turner Sent: Tuesday, September 03, 2013 7:20 PM To: FlightGear developers discussions Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] Howto download aircraft ( and others data ) from Git On 3 Sep 2013, at 18

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Howto download aircraft ( and others data ) from Git

2013-09-03 Thread James Turner
On 3 Sep 2013, at 18:19, Stuart Buchanan wrote: > On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 6:07 PM, Alan Teederwrote: >> Not everyone lives in a big city with fast broadband and the powers that be >> seem to bury their heads in the sand when the topic is bought up - as it has >> been and will be – again and again

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Howto download aircraft ( and others data ) from Git

2013-09-03 Thread geneb
On Tue, 3 Sep 2013, grtuxhangar team wrote: > Curt, > > Thanks for the joke > > Ahmad > > How about you not be a jerk when you don't get what you want, when you want it? g. -- Proud owner of F-15C 80-0007 http://www.f15sim.com - The only one of its kind. http://www.diy-cockpits.org/coll - Go C

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Howto download aircraft ( and others data ) from Git

2013-09-03 Thread Stuart Buchanan
Hi Alan, On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 6:07 PM, Alan Teederwrote: > Not everyone lives in a big city with fast broadband and the powers that be > seem to bury their heads in the sand when the topic is bought up - as it has > been and will be – again and again and again. Can I refer you to Jame Turner's

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Howto download aircraft ( and others data ) from Git

2013-09-03 Thread James Turner
On 3 Sep 2013, at 16:57, Stefan Seifert wrote: > I hope with the reorganization we don't lose the simpleness of doing a git > pull to get the latest and greatest of all aircraft. Having to look for > scattered repos would be a severe drawback. The repos will be disjoint, but there will be aut

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Howto download aircraft ( and others data ) from Git

2013-09-03 Thread Olivier
Hi De : grtuxhangar team Envoyé le : Mardi 3 septembre 2013 19h04 > Which is out of topic since i refer to GIT FG 2.99 What could be done, and what I did when I was younger was to kindly ask someone with a broadband access to burn you a DVD with the latest

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Howto download aircraft ( and others data ) from Git

2013-09-03 Thread Curtis Olson
On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 11:31 AM, grtuxhangar team wrote: > Curt, > > Thanks for the joke > > Ahmad > Hi Ahmad, I was offering a serious suggestion. I did say that it wouldn't be appropriate for everyone, and I do not know your personal situation. If you derived humor from my suggestion, then I

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Howto download aircraft ( and others data ) from Git

2013-09-03 Thread Olivier
And the DVD solution ? http://shopping.flightgear.org/product/program-dvd-v2-10/ De : grtuxhangar team À : FlightGear developers discussions Envoyé le : Mardi 3 septembre 2013 18h08 Objet : Re: [Flightgear-devel] Howto download aircraft ( and others data

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Howto download aircraft ( and others data ) from Git

2013-09-03 Thread grtuxhangar team
Curt, Thanks for the joke Ahmad On 3 September 2013 18:24, grtuxhangar team wrote: > > >> I hope with the reorganization we don't lose the simpleness of doing a git >> pull to get the latest and greatest of all aircraft. Having to look for >> scattered repos would be a severe drawback. > > >

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Howto download aircraft ( and others data ) from Git

2013-09-03 Thread Alan Teeder
] Howto download aircraft ( and others data ) from Git Thanks Saikrishna . Though my question was to Arnt remark. By the way: Working in a consistent way with FG source 2.99 wants FGData without the Aircraft directory ( we don't need it ) Isn't it possible to have an extract

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Howto download aircraft ( and others data ) from Git

2013-09-03 Thread grtuxhangar team
t :* Re: [Flightgear-devel] Howto download aircraft ( and others > data ) from Git > > Thanks Saikrishna > . > Though my question was to Arnt remark. > > By the way: > Working in a consistent way with FG source 2.99 wants FGData without the > Aircraft directory ( we don&

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Howto download aircraft ( and others data ) from Git

2013-09-03 Thread grtuxhangar team
> > I hope with the reorganization we don't lose the simpleness of doing a git > pull to get the latest and greatest of all aircraft. Having to look for > scattered repos would be a severe drawback. We need the possibility to download a Model , like said at the beginning, Only a fair split orga

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Howto download aircraft ( and others data ) from Git

2013-09-03 Thread Curtis Olson
Here's another idea for downloading large quantities of data. I realize this will not be an option for everyone, but consider going to an internet cafe, or library, or someplace with faster internet. Spend a couple bucks supporting the business and hang out while your data is downloading. On Tu

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Howto download aircraft ( and others data ) from Git

2013-09-03 Thread Stefan Seifert
On Tuesday 03 September 2013 11:51:34 Saikrishna Arcot wrote: > *: Technically, a torrent download of the bundle would allow you pause > and resume, so if there are cut-outs, you won't have to restart. That > being said, downloading 5 GB on a phone line will take a long time (a > week?). Actually

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Howto download aircraft ( and others data ) from Git

2013-09-03 Thread Saikrishna Arcot
The answer was posted a while back. In the short term (immediately), the only ways to get the full fgdata bundle is to either use git or download the 5 GB bundle and update from that, both of which are not possible*. In the long term, according to James, the repo will be reorganized such that t

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Howto download aircraft ( and others data ) from Git

2013-09-03 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Tue, 03 Sep 2013 14:28:21 +0100, James wrote in message <4c5262ae-653a-475f-ad09-91fe74617...@mac.com>: > > On 3 Sep 2013, at 14:13, grtuxhangar team wrote: > > > How could we have FGData split in several part which can be > > downloaded easily ? Or is there any other way with Git which i

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Howto download aircraft ( and others data ) from Git

2013-09-03 Thread grtuxhangar team
Hello, Are n't you missing some understanding ? or did my question was "middle ages" ? To you, how long does it takes to download 5 GB with a simple phone line ? guessing there is not any cut out during the time. Thanks Ahmad On 3 September 2013 16:58, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > On Tue, 03 Se

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Howto download aircraft ( and others data ) from Git

2013-09-03 Thread grtuxhangar team
Thanks Saikrishna . Though my question was to Arnt remark. By the way: Working in a consistent way with FG source 2.99 wants FGData without the Aircraft directory ( we don't need it ) Isn't it possible to have an extract of FGData without Aircraft ? All the best Ahmad On 3 September 2013 1

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Howto download aircraft ( and others data ) from Git

2013-09-03 Thread Saikrishna Arcot
There is a torrent version of the ~5GB fgdata.bundle, but unless it's been updated, it's about a year old. It might be time to make a new bundle. As of April 28, my personal version of the fgdata.bundle was 5.8 GB. Saikrishna Arcot On Tue 03 Sep 2013 10:58:39 AM EDT, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > On T

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Howto download aircraft ( and others data ) from Git

2013-09-03 Thread James Turner
On 3 Sep 2013, at 14:13, grtuxhangar team wrote: > How could we have FGData split in several part which can be downloaded > easily ? > Or is there any other way with Git which is similar to the old way with > "snapshot." ? For 3.0 I will be making FGData significantly smaller, since the si

[Flightgear-devel] Howto download aircraft ( and others data ) from Git

2013-09-03 Thread grtuxhangar team
Hello This was an old Forum topic http://www.flightgear.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=10420 When we don't have any high speed connection we can't get FGData Git which is bigger than acceptable. The process which was described at the forum was an alternative, so we could use it to update any