-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 Sounds like a great idea. I would suggest using libcurl for the download (if you don't have a better idea). Some key features needed for making this good: * Update list of available aircrafts (when new are added to website). * Find updates for already installed aircrafts (bug fixes and such) * Ability to both install and remove aircrafts in a clean way. * Show images of not yet downloaded aircrafts. * Be able to only show aircrafts that work with the installed fgfs (for example: osg/plib, version...)
However I find it hard to belive we could get this done in time for the release. A simpler version on the other hand could probably be done in time, but then if we later decide to add the rest we would have to consider backward compatibility of the system. Regards, Arvid Norlander John Denker wrote: > It might help to have some sort of download-on-demand feature. > > In particular, fgfs --show-aircraft would show *all* known aircraft, > with perhaps some indication of whether they had already been > downloaded or not. The first use of a not-yet-downloaded aircraft > would cause it to be automagically downloaded, assuming a network > connection is available. > > Then the "base package" can be quite small, containing just the > name, thumbnail, and short description for each aircraft, plus > the full model for a verrry small number of aircraft. > > If you want to go the whole nine yards, you could a tool analogous > to Debian "deselect" which shows the menu of what is available > and what is selected, and allows downloading of new things and/or > purging of old things. > > This is a pretty serious user-interface issue, because it is > completely unreasonable to expect users to download new aircraft > when they don't know what's available. Showing them a menu of > what's available makes a huge difference. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHWEf8WmK6ng/aMNkRClm1AKChVWeqyMHiYdr2703+oxYSXr99EwCgnvFk f7kNQsKPHogGh2O6Erm0Bq0= =9BXB -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: The Future of Linux Business White Paper from Novell. From the desktop to the data center, Linux is going mainstream. Let it simplify your IT future. http://altfarm.mediaplex.com/ad/ck/8857-50307-18918-4 _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
