RE: [Flightgear-devel] v1.0 musings (was: Aircraft included in basepackage)

2005-01-20 Thread Jon Berndt
> Let me steer this discussion in another direction ... > > I would really love to start talking about doing a v1.0 release of > FlightGear ... maybe this spring or early summer. There are a couple > > 3. Fix the JSBsim low speed gear jitters. Here's my one and only *big* > gripe about JSBsim ...

Re: [Flightgear-devel] v1.0 musings (was: Aircraft included in basepackage)

2005-01-20 Thread Dave Martin
On Thursday 20 Jan 2005 15:38, Jon Berndt wrote: > I hear you. Coincidentally, I was thinking of this last night: what do we > (JSBSim) need to do before we finally call it a production 1.0 release? The > gear problem is the first thing I thought of, as well. Right now I am so > focused on getting

RE: [Flightgear-devel] v1.0 musings (was: Aircraft included in basepackage)

2005-01-20 Thread Giles Robertson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I've tried introducing a few friends to Flightgear. They are mostly Windows users, technically competent but not adept, who have had experience of video games and possibly other flight simulators. I thought I'd muse a bit on the following points, becau

Re: [Flightgear-devel] v1.0 musings (was: Aircraft included in basepackage)

2005-01-20 Thread Durk Talsma
> > 3) ATC/AI > This may just be my group of friends :P, but many of them find it much > more fun and interesting if there are other aircraft in the world, and > if they can communicate with ATC. Durk's work in this area is making > this easier, but ATC itself can still feel quite primitive. Couple

Re: [Flightgear-devel] v1.0 musings (was: Aircraft included in basepackage)

2005-01-20 Thread Paul Surgeon
On Thursday, 20 January 2005 19:49, Giles Robertson wrote: > 1) Fgrun/fgfs. > For the average windows user, this is *highly* counterintuitive. In so > far as Windows has an overarching user interface and tool design > philosophy, it's integration. The concept of a GUI that launches the > program do

Re: [Flightgear-devel] v1.0 musings (was: Aircraft included in basepackage)

2005-01-21 Thread Christian Mayer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Giles Robertson schrieb: > 1) Fgrun/fgfs. > For the average windows user, this is *highly* counterintuitive. In so > far as Windows has an overarching user interface and tool design > philosophy, it's integration. The concept of a GUI that launches the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] v1.0 musings (was: Aircraft included in basepackage)

2005-01-21 Thread Erik Hofman
Christian Mayer wrote: The first point is argueable. But that we need a restart just to change planes is a big show stopper! It depends on the goals for 1.0. If you want a version that is easy to use for the end user then you might be right. If v1.0 is aimed for a completely working standalone si