Melchior Franz wrote
> Sent: 19 April 2008 07:57
> To: flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [Flightgear-devel] foo-set.xml -> foo-yasim-set.xml
>
>
> There are more and more aircraft in CVS with two *-set.xml
> files, where one is basically empty and only referring to a
> second one. This is understandable in cases where actually
> more than one FDM is used or very likely to be used in the
> next time. But it's becoming a problem if this redundant
> stuff is routinely added for no good reason. This makes the
> output of --show-aircraft, the list in fgrun, or the output
> of an --aircraft= shell completion script unusable, while it
> has no real advantage.
>
> I considered to strip all redundant *-set.xml files out in
> --show-aircraft (everything that contains one of
> yasim/jsbsim/uiuc/base) and to only show that with
> --show-aircraft --verbose. But that wouldn't fix the fgrun
> and shell problem, and not even those subtypes are used consistently.
>
> Or should we just watch the cancer and not do anything? :-}
>
> m.
>
>
> btw: also some livery *-set.xml files like the three 787{ANA,CO,FC}
> should IMHO be merged, and livery handling be supported
> at runtime, like it's done in the dhc6.
>
I don't think we want multiple entries in fgrun etc. which refer to the same
aircraft model. Each entry shown should select a unique aircraft model.
There are surprisingly few entries which actually adhere to this principle.
I suspect that this might be a case where a useful file structure has been
blindly copied and used where it is really not required.
Now that liveries can be selected at runtime, and can be transferred over
MP, different liveries should not count as unique aircraft.
If we agree the principle, we then need to work out how to crawl out of the
mess. It isn't going to be all that easy or trivial.
Vivian
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