Am 16.10.2011 20:01, schrieb Alan Teeder: > Flightgear already has such a system for scenery. You only download > what you want, or need. Very few users need scenery for the whole > world. > Extending this concept to the bloated aircraft section of fgdata > seems quite logical.
It's important though to see the difference between the end-user front-end and our developer's back-end of the system. In fact, for end-users, we already have such a front-end for aircraft: http://www.flightgear.org/download/aircraft-v2-4/ ;-) Users get a base package and only download what they need - same for scenery as for aircraft. It's just that the aircraft front-end is completely manual - which can be improved. Now, we're changing the aircraft repository back-end, which is what developers are supposed to use. Note that scenery developers also don't use the terrasync/SVN front-end for submitting their work. And now that we're creating separate aircraft GIT repositories, it still isn't the best idea to use these for end-user deployment. GIT is great for development - you can merge/branch/stash nicely. But it's not really what an end-user needs. > I don´t think that anyone is talking about splitting apart the core > parts of fgdata, just the optional aircraft. Not sure :). Once we're at it, we can also move other things out of fgdata, which don't really belong there. The "Models" folder for example, since that's not maintained there - it's just a copy of what is maintained in the scenery database and we shouldn't modify it directly in fgdata. And it's also fairly large and the second biggest part of the remaining archive. When all aircraft have gone, just the Texture & Models folders make up 50% of the remaining git archive. And their archive is much larger than the even biggest of our aircraft (and spacecraft... ;-)). Once we start using git submodules, we can also go for a cleaner solution here. One or two more submodules won't make much of a difference. > Perhaps one day someone will come up with a terrasync-like option to > one of the front-ends ( fgrun) which will get chosen aircraft on-the > fly when needed. Yes, like what James is currently working on? ;-) http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=27707002 http://wiki.flightgear.org/Aircraft_deployment#Proposal_from_James He's made the proposal a while ago and is still working on it. Note, this is planned as an end-user front-end and supposed to be as automatic and convenient as downloading scenery already is. But all this is completely independent of the solution/repository type we're using for development. cheers, Thorsten ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-oct _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
