Chris Metzler wrote:
Fair enough. But with ground structures that are installable separately, it's possible for a user to pick and choose what to install. For example, someone could wish to see a set of landmarks in Paris, but not the buildings at Orly (wanting smoother framerates during landing/takeoff, but not caring so much when flying over the center of the city), or something like that. So while I really like having the separate Objects directory, and agree that being able to toggle on/off the static scenery objects would be a good thing, I think being able to pick and choose what (non-random) static structures to install is *also* a good thing.
Agreed.
Well, having user-developed scenery in a CVS repository would be nice in that it'd make available all of the CVS infrastructure; no need to create or port a bunch of applications to maintain it all. And it would be easy to integrate with everything else, and add to mirrors, and so on. But from the users' perspective, it may not be ideal in that it's not very *browseable* -- to look through what's available in a nice friendly form, with images and so on, and pick out what you like and dload it. Browsing a CVS repository is possible, of course; but kinda ugly and more oriented towards developers than users. I don't know much about user-friendly CVS clients, especially for Windows. The other thing is that I think it'd be good to avoid putting any more work upon the existing developers (e.g. not asking Curt to take on more website work). If the CVS archive ran on outside machines, and was linked to off the website on baron.flightgear.org, that might work OK, I dunno.
I've already explained this to Jon, but I was really aiming at a two stage approach. Maintaining can be done using CVS. Making it available for users could be done like downloading the terrain data right now: Using a webpage.
Erik
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