Le lundi 21 novembre 2005 à 12:33 +0100, MPCEE French Bureau a écrit : > Bonjour Fred: > > Je suis en France dans l'Auvergne. Si je parle très forte, tant pis, mais > après beaucoup des heures, avec des autres, en tant que je peux dissiper des > problèmes, je continua comme ça !
hello Martin, First, thanks for trying to use the very difficult French language, and thanks for living in our beautiful Auvergne. I am not a FG developer only a FG user, fortunately regarding FlightGear i am a Linux user (it is a choice, after many experiences with many operating system) I am an old "computer man" who knew the "big" IBM 360, and developed on it ( it was a long time ago .....) > Little is given to Windows' users and we have to find ways to resolve our > issues. We did not have access to the "pre" versions, but, yes, we are left > to resolve them ourselves. I are right when you worry about a missing pre version for Windows, however, i would like to put the finger on: -It is very difficult to offer a generic product which works on every platforms, and every operating systems. -The software companies have a policy which is to answer to the most populated (wider market). -The end user is delivered with a product and a costly assistance contract. That product is supposed to answer to his own request but very often he has to adapt himself to the product. -Regarding the Open Source and GPL, it is less easy to develop onto Windows than to develop onto Linux. -The devel FG team has developed Flightgear which suit to several platforms, that is (my opinion) a real performance. > There are some list members who have given hours > of their time to assist us. Like me, we thank them for this. In the main it > may be a graphics card/driver problem, but then again we are in the mass > market and developers SHOULD remember this. You probably heard about Microsoft Flight Simulator. That product answer to the mass market => it is a game (big market) running onto Windows operating system (other big market). That game is not free. (we have to pay for it). I am not sure that FlightGear would try to compete with Microsoft. > I am too old and can go far > back, but there was a spirit in being able to share information. Times are > changing and nowadays, these persons are few and far between. The spirit of > Flight Gear is excellent, but it is becoming too big and splintered, with > what seem many unfinished projects and no control over its ultimate > direction. We have even had one aircraft developer recently say that he > created an aircraft, but did not expect anyone to use it! I am not sure be involved by that answer, may be coming from me. When i spend time freely to do a job , the payback is only my pleasure to do "Beautiful". When i am fully satisfied, i offer it to others. That is the reversed way of any market approach, sorry. > His response was > to someone asking why the cockpit was not finished!!! Why was it made > available for download? > > There are big issues with this release and, so far, it seems to be Windows > related. As for non-Windows operating systems and the types of problems we > are reading about, these seem to be, in the main, related to how "script" or > "codes are written" and where to find the relevant information. What we are > seeing is more discontent and this is going to grow. With previous versions, > we heard that this or that would be resolved in the next release or new > script (which cannot be accessed for Windows). Each new release is for me a surprise (following each new release since 0.9.0) The improvement is very quick, it is close to the upper technical resources. These technical resources are permanently in progress (look at GPU - Graphics Processor progress during the pasted two years); A computer you by today , will be obsolete 12 months later on. That is probably the cause of your feeling of "never finished". > We now have the latest > version, but the pre release was not available for Windows' users. As I said > the mass market is Windows and if we were able to access developments as > they happened, there would be more individuals available to comment on or > inform of problems. As it is, it is afterwards and too late to do anything > about it. If the problems were resolved, would Windows' users have access to > the changes when immediately needed? Then, in answering your question, would > I donate for development - yes, but only when I was assured that it > benefited Windows' users. At this time it does not. > > Thank you > > Martin > Cheers > -- Gerard _______________________________________________ Flightgear-users mailing list [email protected] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-users 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
