Hi all, There seems to be some debate about whether FG pre-release 0.9.9 is (or was) available for Windows. I'm going to proverbially "pop my head over the parapet" in support of the FG developers.
0.9.9 *is* available for Win32 in the same way that it's available for other platforms...as source code (I've just checked the source code download page). It's not hard to build the source code on Win32. I used to think it was hard because all of the information to build for Win32 was fragmented around the message forums. To try and relieve that pain I spent many hours learning how to build FG source for Win32 then wrote a PDF document to help others. That doc has been reviewed and is now hosted on the FG Downloads -> Tutorials section (thanks AJ, Curt and others). The tools to compile FG are, like FG itself, FREE. I'd like to politely ask the readers of this forum that they remember FG is free and, for those that are using the sim rather than contributing to the project, take a moment to consider how many hours the developers have committed. This is their own time purely for the love of the hobby (I assume?!?). Please, please, please stop badgering the developers. Try downloading the document, downloading the build tools (Cygwin), downloading the source and having a go at verifying the source. As Curt recently said...the more people that verify the pre-release source the less chance there is of releasing problems. My final comment - if you truly believe there is a problem then try making a positive contribution. Reliable documentation, for example, is just as valuable as the code itself. My personal thanks to all of the FG developers...may you all continue to give up your time for this *excellent* FREE product. I hope I mentioned "FREE" enough times in that message :) Kevin. _______________________________________________ Flightgear-users mailing list [email protected] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-users 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
