Re: [Flightgear-devel] Source code control systems

2009-09-03 Thread Martin Spott
Hi Tom, Tom P wrote: But let's say that the project switched completely to GIT, would there be a way to support streaming scenery ('terrasync') to the user without him/her needing to clone the entire fgdata repository ? Terrascenery is a totally independent affair and therefore not

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Source code control systems

2009-09-03 Thread Alex Perry
On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 12:02 PM, Tom Pzomm...@gmail.com wrote: My only concern with SVN is that it stores every file twice in the local file system, so it's not ideal for the 'data' portion of FlightGear. For example, right now a complete checkout of Aircraft is ~ 2 GB, and it would double

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Source code control systems

2009-09-03 Thread Erik Hofman
AJ MacLeod wrote: With the data tree, we frequently have several people working on the same area (aircraft models, in particular) - not only that, but many of the people working on aircraft models have historically not had any kind of commit access to the main repository. The line

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [flightgear-devel] cmdarg() function

2009-09-03 Thread Behlül UÇAR
Can someone explain how cmdarg().getNode(blablabla) function works at least. It's essential for me. Thanks 2009/9/2 Behlül UÇAR ucarbeh...@gmail.com Actually I'm planning on making a GUI which the user can enter unlimited number of points and 3 extra parameters with that points. After storing

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Source code control systems

2009-09-03 Thread Stefan Seifert
On Wednesday 02 September 2009 17:55:07 Curtis Olson wrote: In addition, I am self hosting our master CVS repository which means that if my machine breaks, I personally am on the hook to drop everything else and do whatever it takes (ranging from hardware, to OS, to security, to whatever

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Source code control systems

2009-09-03 Thread Tim Moore
On 09/02/2009 05:55 PM, Curtis Olson wrote: Source code control systems are close to religious topics for many people so I want to avoid potential panic here. I understand that due to the diversity of opinions within our developer community, it will be impossible to reach any kind of

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Source code control systems

2009-09-03 Thread Tim Moore
On 09/02/2009 09:19 PM, Curtis Olson wrote: On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 2:02 PM, Tom P zomm...@gmail.com mailto:zomm...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Curt My only concern with SVN is that it stores every file twice in the local file system, so it's not ideal for the 'data' portion of

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [flightgear-devel] cmdarg() function

2009-09-03 Thread Csaba Halász
On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 10:25 AM, Behlül UÇARucarbeh...@gmail.com wrote: Can someone explain how cmdarg().getNode(blablabla) function works at least. It's essential for me. cmdarg() is a mechanism to pass arguments to a nasal script instead of normal function parameters. You can get a short

[Flightgear-devel] Input protocol implementation problem

2009-09-03 Thread AC001
First am a newbie to FlightGear and am throughly enjoying the experience ;-) Am hacking in pyqt experimenting/researching with sockets (to eventually interface with Arudino) The FG-output to pyqt listening is working great, with no major issues. However I am having problems with the input side

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Source code control systems

2009-09-03 Thread Curtis Olson
On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 4:10 AM, Tim Moore timo...@redhat.com wrote: It is important to remember that, unlike a personal religious choice like emacs vs. vi, the outcome of this religious debate will affect many people's daily interaction with Flightgear. In this way I suppose the debate is

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Source code control systems

2009-09-03 Thread AC001
Am new to flightgear, but read this thread, and for a tuppence worth (ducks) have you looked at launchpad.net ? thats got scm, bus tracker, teams, etc, etc What is launchpad? https://launchpad.net/+tour/index and that uses Bazaar scm regards Pete Curtis Olson wrote: On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Source code control systems

2009-09-03 Thread dk
Am new to flightgear, but read this thread, and for a tuppence worth (ducks) have you looked at launchpad.net ? thats got scm, bus tracker, teams, etc, etc What is launchpad? https://launchpad.net/+tour/index and that uses Bazaar scm regards Pete Fortunately, there are a lot of

[Flightgear-devel] New FlightGear research project

2009-09-03 Thread Durk Talsma
Hi Folks, As of today, we have a new computer in our lab that is dedicated to running FlightGear only. The Machine, an intel Quad Core, with 4 GiGs of RAM, and a one Terabyte drive, is equipped with two NVIDIA 9800GT video cards, running three Flatscreen Monitors. The intention of the setup

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Source code control systems

2009-09-03 Thread Tatsuhiro Nishioka
Hi there, First of all, I want to thank Curt for starting this discussion. I'm very glad to hear that you are willing to improve the current situation. Aside from the religious aspect of choosing a version control software (or whatever you name it), I want to say what should or can be

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Source code control systems

2009-09-03 Thread Anders Gidenstam
On Thu, 3 Sep 2009, Anders Gidenstam wrote: A user who isn't interested in the history can also make a shallow clone with git which I would expect to be only very slightly larger than the working copy itself, enabling the user to save disk space by sacrificing functionality he/she isn't

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Source code control systems

2009-09-03 Thread Matias D'Ambrosio
On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 7:09 PM, Anders Gidenstam anders-...@gidenstam.orgwrote: An update on the shallow clone: git keeps a compressed pack of the data in addition to the working copy. When cloning the current fgdata git repository from the map server with depth 1 this overhead adds up to

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Source code control systems

2009-09-03 Thread Tom P
Hi Anders How long does it take you to do a shallow clone from mapserver ? While I've checked-out data via CVS various times in the past (and it takes a couple of hours), I haven't been able to clone the 1.6GB fgdata repository, I interrupted after a few hours. I'm on an 1.5 Mbps ADSL link, and

[Flightgear-devel] patch to solve a crash at exit

2009-09-03 Thread Tatsuhiro Nishioka
Hi there, I've found that FG crashes at exit at very high likelihood. Attached is a patch (for Main/globals.cxx) to fix this. Please commit this change. The cause of the crash is that some subsystems (input and gui) call get_subsystems() at their destructor. This is very dangerous since

Re: [Flightgear-devel] patch to solve a crash at exit

2009-09-03 Thread Torsten Dreyer
Hi there, I've found that FG crashes at exit at very high likelihood. Attached is a patch (for Main/globals.cxx) to fix this. Please commit this change. The cause of the crash is that some subsystems (input and gui) call get_subsystems() at their destructor. This is very dangerous since