[Flightgear-devel] Re : Final 2.6.0 Release Preparations

2012-02-15 Thread Olivier
There you go for the French Translation. == L'équipe de développement de FlightGear a le plaisir d'annoncer la sortie de la version 2.6.0 de FlightGear, le simulateur de vol libre et gratuit. Cette nouvelle version contient de nombreuses et

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Fair practice & autorisations

2012-02-15 Thread David Van Mosselbeen
Should i remind everyone that this all is about open source and GPL v2 data. Some spirit that have already proved it's capacity and functionality. It's all about data that is contribute by different talented peoples from all around the world. It's all about little self made parts from each other t

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Final 2.6.0 Release Preparations

2012-02-15 Thread joacher
On Wed, 15 Feb 2012 15:38:59 -0600 Curtis Olson wrote: > Obviously I need to steer clear of images that show development or testing > features that are not yet available in the v2.6 release What about custom scenery? Joe

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Flightgear-devel Digest, Vol 70, Issue 9

2012-02-15 Thread BARANGER Emmanuel
Le 15/02/2012 19:38, flightgear-devel-requ...@lists.sourceforge.net a écrit : > -- > > Message: 22 > Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2012 19:30:51 +0100 > From: kreuzritter2000 > Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] Fair practice& autorisations > To:flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.ne

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Flightgear-devel Digest, Vol 70, Issue 8

2012-02-15 Thread Heiko Schulz
Sorry, without any offense, I have to disagree in following points. >>The original author of instruments panel is Alexis Laille >Absolutely and totally false! The first version, albeit a very simple, >is my work. Alexis Laille has nothing to do with that! When he improves/ replace the panel, w

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Fair practice & autorisations

2012-02-15 Thread Heiko Schulz
Hello, >I agree he is the owner of the model, but he is not the owner of the >FlightGear project. I would disagree here in one point. >From my understanding of the law, he is just the owner = copyright-holder of >the parts he made (basic 3d-model, basic .xmls), but not the parts which had >be

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Final 2.6.0 Release Preparations

2012-02-15 Thread Curtis Olson
I would also like to put a call out for screen shots for the v2.6 release. What I'm looking for is an honest representation of FlightGear v2.6, but of course shown in the best light/angles/environment possible. I'm ok with images generated from pre-releases or release candidates. Obviously I nee

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Final 2.6.0 Release Preparations

2012-02-15 Thread Martin Spott
ThorstenB wrote: > Every free, open source project is really driven by active community > _participation_, [...] I overly agree with the opinions presented by the two Thorsten's ! Aside from that I'd like to point out that I'm having mixed feelings concerning the prominent use of the term "comm

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Final 2.6.0 Release Preparations

2012-02-15 Thread Torsten Dreyer
> The FlightGear development team is happy to announce the v2.6.0 > release of FlightGear, the free, open-source flight simulator. This > new version contains many exciting new features, enhancements and > bugfixes. Major improvements from v2.4.0 include reduced AI aircraft > load times, easier gra

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Fair practice & autorisations

2012-02-15 Thread joacher
On Wed, 15 Feb 2012 19:38:34 +0100 Jan Mattsson wrote: > The concept of ownership does not work well with GPL. What about maintainers? Who is the official maintainer of a 'placeholder'? -- Virtualization & Cloud Mana

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re : Re : Scenery web and scene models

2012-02-15 Thread Martin Spott
Pedro Morgan wrote: > Guys take a look at this in php > http://flightgear.daffodil.uk.com/index.php Looks familiar, isn't this your proposal for a re-design of the main FlightGear site ? > So what it boils down to is the fact that all of us are working on > different tangents in php// and alike.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re : Re : Scenery web and scene models

2012-02-15 Thread Martin Spott
Pedro Morgan wrote: > Can I make a suggestion;; > > To split the sceneryweb into two repositories.. > eg > fg-www-mapserver > fg-www-scenemodels "Scenemodels", the former "FlightGear Scenery Database" and the FlightGear MapServer had been starting as independent projects. We're now right in the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re : Re : Scenery web and scene models

2012-02-15 Thread Martin Spott
Pedro Morgan wrote: > Actually can I ask some questions..and some feedback.. maybe.. One day I'll probably publish the Apache config as well. > 1) the server is using mod python and php ? Yes. > Also I assume there are a few mod reqrites on the server to make index.psp > appear as homepage..

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Fair practice & autorisations

2012-02-15 Thread Jan Mattsson
The concept of ownership does not work well with GPL. /J 2012/2/15 kreuzritter2000 : > I agree he is the owner of the model, but he is not the owner of the > FlightGear project. -- Virtualization & Cloud Management Using

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Fair practice & autorisations

2012-02-15 Thread kreuzritter2000
Am Sonntag, den 12.02.2012, 11:00 +0100 schrieb Erik Hofman: > So Emanuel has every right to dismiss any modifications on *his* model > and to update git accordingly. I agree he is the owner of the model, but he is not the owner of the FlightGear project. I see the aircraft name DC-3 as a placeho

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re : Re : Scenery web and scene models

2012-02-15 Thread Martin Spott
Pedro Morgan wrote: > So ive created a pyqt interface GUI, with an embedded "marblemap" map, and > would like to aquire data about scene models online via ajax.. so I can > splat on the map.. and being clever with which models are used where etc.. > > So the "full web interface" is not required

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re : Scenery web and scene models

2012-02-15 Thread Martin Spott
Pedro Morgan wrote: > Have you considered Smarty templating (am biased as am a developer) Most of the code which now makes the "Scenemodels" web site had been written more than seven (!) years before now and, as far as I can tell, functionality was the foremost obligation, not elegance ;-) That

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re : Scenery web and scene models

2012-02-15 Thread Martin Spott
Pedro Morgan wrote: > would it be possible to "dump" the fgs_* tables and made available as a > tarball... I'm not too enthusiastic about making DB dumps publicly available, but as an additional illustration to the table structure here's an example SQL script to add a model and the corresponding

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Projection system question

2012-02-15 Thread tuomas . kuosmanen
I intended to say "Spherical *dome* projection example" but my phone knew better and autocorrected.. /T On 15.2.2012 15:35 tuomas.kuosma...@gmail.com wrote: Hi. Two things: First, keep us posted of your progress :) I am also working on simulator stuff at our aviation club, so this kind of st

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Projection system question

2012-02-15 Thread tuomas . kuosmanen
Hi. Two things: First, keep us posted of your progress :) I am also working on simulator stuff at our aviation club, so this kind of stuff is interesting to follow. Another thing that comes to my mind is a spherical door projection example I remember seeing on README.multiscreen (or it was one

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Sanitizing materials.xml

2012-02-15 Thread Erik Hofman
On Wed, 2012-02-15 at 10:27 +, Stuart Buchanan wrote: > I spent some time last night putting together a proper Port/Industrial > material definition using the models under Models/Industrial and the > object masking against the existing urban texture. It looks quite good, > though due to the la

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Sanitizing materials.xml

2012-02-15 Thread Stuart Buchanan
On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 11:02 AM, Martin Spott wrote: > Even slightly further (I think both sites are just RSYNC-Mirrors of the > same master): > >  ftp://ftp.de.flightgear.org/pub/fgfs/Everything-0.0-0.6/Base-Packages/ Project archaeology! Anyone want to try compiling it to see how far we've co

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Sanitizing materials.xml

2012-02-15 Thread Martin Spott
Erik Hofman wrote: > On Wed, 2012-02-15 at 11:44 +0100, Erik Hofman wrote: >> And even further back :) >> ftp://ftp.de.flightgear.org/pub/fgfs/Shared/ > > euh: http://ftp.linux.kiev.ua/pub/fgfs/Everything-0.7/Base-Packages/ Even slightly further (I think both sites are just RSYNC-Mirrors of the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Sanitizing materials.xml

2012-02-15 Thread Erik Hofman
On Wed, 2012-02-15 at 11:44 +0100, Erik Hofman wrote: > On Wed, 2012-02-15 at 11:25 +0100, Erik Hofman wrote: > > > Ah found a backup of all base packages (your own repository by any > > chance?): > > ftp://ftp.de.flightgear.org/pub/fgfs/Shared/ > > And even further back :) > ftp://ftp.de.flightg

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Sanitizing materials.xml

2012-02-15 Thread Erik Hofman
On Wed, 2012-02-15 at 11:25 +0100, Erik Hofman wrote: > Ah found a backup of all base packages (your own repository by any > chance?): > ftp://ftp.de.flightgear.org/pub/fgfs/Shared/ And even further back :) ftp://ftp.de.flightgear.org/pub/fgfs/Shared/ Erik -

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Sanitizing materials.xml

2012-02-15 Thread Stuart Buchanan
On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 10:13 AM, Martin Spott wrote: > I'm running "pickaxe" on the GIT repo - will fetch the results in an > hour or two when I'm getting back from the customer.  The GIT history > dates back to year 2k, I guess, I spent some time last night putting together a proper Port/Industr

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Sanitizing materials.xml

2012-02-15 Thread Erik Hofman
On Wed, 2012-02-15 at 10:13 +, Martin Spott wrote: > Erik Hofman wrote: > > On Wed, 2012-02-15 at 09:57 +, Martin Spott wrote: > >> Erik Hofman wrote: > >> > >> > Correction, there was once. It looks like someone cleaned out the > >> > Textures directory. > >> > >> I hope this wasn't me .

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Sanitizing materials.xml

2012-02-15 Thread Martin Spott
Erik Hofman wrote: > On Wed, 2012-02-15 at 09:57 +, Martin Spott wrote: >> Erik Hofman wrote: >> >> > Correction, there was once. It looks like someone cleaned out the >> > Textures directory. >> >> I hope this wasn't me I think the change should still be >> available in the history, th

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re : Re : Scenery web and scene models

2012-02-15 Thread Pedro Morgan
Started playing with smarty... https://gitorious.org/~ffs/fg/ffs-sceneryweb pete -- Virtualization & Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing also focuses

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Sanitizing materials.xml

2012-02-15 Thread Erik Hofman
On Wed, 2012-02-15 at 09:57 +, Martin Spott wrote: > Erik Hofman wrote: > > > Correction, there was once. It looks like someone cleaned out the > > Textures directory. > > I hope this wasn't me I think the change should still be > available in the history, thus reverting the commit shou

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Sanitizing materials.xml

2012-02-15 Thread Martin Spott
Erik Hofman wrote: > Correction, there was once. It looks like someone cleaned out the > Textures directory. I hope this wasn't me I think the change should still be available in the history, thus reverting the commit should do it. Cheers, Martin. -- Unix _IS_ user friendly - it

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Sanitizing materials.xml

2012-02-15 Thread Martin Spott
Erik Hofman wrote: > On Tue, 14 Feb 2012 17:30:37 + (UTC) > Martin Spott wrote: >> Emilian Huminiuc wrote: >> >> > If we're on the subject of materials*.xml: >> > 1. could Construction, Industrial, Port be split from Urban/BuiltUpCover >> > as >> > they are now in materials-dds.xml? >> >>

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Sanitizing materials.xml

2012-02-15 Thread Erik Hofman
On Wed, 2012-02-15 at 00:12 +0100, Erik Hofman wrote: > There should already be an Industrial texture available. I made one way back > that has been used for a while but was rendered unused when flightgear > switched to vmap0 only. Correction, there was once. It looks like someone cleaned out t

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Flightgear-devel Digest, Vol 70, Issue 8

2012-02-15 Thread BARANGER Emmanuel
Le 15/02/2012 00:58, flightgear-devel-requ...@lists.sourceforge.net a écrit : Hey Ant, You cite in your response the write of Clement, but it's wrong ! > The original author of basic XML animation for model is Emmanuel > Baranger The original author of instruments panel is Alexis Laille Absolut