Re: [Flightgear-devel] Release 2.8.0: feature freeze starts now

2012-07-01 Thread Stefan Seifert
On Sunday 01 July 2012 15:47:11 ThorstenB wrote: > Yes, building inside the source tree has all kinds of pitfalls. And due > to the ".gitignore" files which are there to ignore all generated files > (and keep them from being accidentally committed to git), it's almost > impossible to tell whether

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Release 2.8.0: feature freeze starts now

2012-07-01 Thread James Turner
On 1 Jul 2012, at 14:47, ThorstenB wrote: > After 2.8, I'm going to add a cmake warning for builds inside the source > tree. Some other projects even disallow such builds (throw a > configuration error). Maybe we should do the same some day - and then > get rid of the ".gitignore" magic. +1 t

Re: [Flightgear-devel] upcoming release suggestion

2012-07-01 Thread James Turner
On 1 Jul 2012, at 15:00, ThorstenB wrote: > To be frank, I don't think that's the case. All new users don't know > anything (yet). So, showing outlines which don't really mean anything to > them, just adds to their confusion - whatever the colour (and every new > user is already a bit confused

Re: [Flightgear-devel] upcoming release suggestion

2012-07-01 Thread ThorstenB
Am 01.07.2012 15:47, schrieb Scott: > I think users know that hotspots are yellow, the rectangles are cyan in > colour, so that is an indicator to users that it isn't a normal hotspot, > so they probably shouldn't get too confused. To be frank, I don't think that's the case. All new users don't kn

Re: [Flightgear-devel] upcoming release suggestion

2012-07-01 Thread Scott
On Sun, 2012-07-01 at 14:20 +0200, ThorstenB wrote: > Am 01.07.2012 14:04, schrieb Gijs de Rooy: > > > Before the next release , maybe it would be a good idea to disable > > > those 'panel' outlines , which show up when you press 'C' to view > > > hotspots. > > > > IIRC the bug is not in the dis

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Release 2.8.0: feature freeze starts now

2012-07-01 Thread ThorstenB
Am 01.07.2012 15:03, schrieb Bertrand Coconnier: > OK I finally understood what happened. Before 2.7.0, I was running > 'cmake .' in flightgear root directory and it created all the object > files amongst the source files. Since it is not the way to proceed > with cmake, I decided to create a 'buil

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Release 2.8.0: feature freeze starts now

2012-07-01 Thread Bertrand Coconnier
2012/7/1 ThorstenB : > Am 30.06.2012 15:02, schrieb Bertrand Coconnier: >> I don't know if it's only me, but all my efforts to match sg/fg/fgdata >> version were unsuccessful until I manually deleted >> src/Include/version.h in flightgear. >> After a complete rebuild and installation FlightGear was

Re: [Flightgear-devel] upcoming release suggestion

2012-07-01 Thread ThorstenB
Am 01.07.2012 14:04, schrieb Gijs de Rooy: > > Before the next release , maybe it would be a good idea to disable > > those 'panel' outlines , which show up when you press 'C' to view > > hotspots. > > IIRC the bug is not in the displaying of the edges, but in the > respective panel configs. > T

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Release 2.8.0: feature freeze starts now

2012-07-01 Thread ThorstenB
Am 30.06.2012 15:02, schrieb Bertrand Coconnier: > I don't know if it's only me, but all my efforts to match sg/fg/fgdata > version were unsuccessful until I manually deleted > src/Include/version.h in flightgear. > After a complete rebuild and installation FlightGear was finally able > to start bu

Re: [Flightgear-devel] upcoming release suggestion

2012-07-01 Thread Gijs de Rooy
> Before the next release , maybe it would be a good idea to disable > those 'panel' outlines , which show up when you press 'C' to view > hotspots. IIRC the bug is not in the displaying of the edges, but in the respective panel configs. The edges were introduced so developers can fix their air

Re: [Flightgear-devel] upcoming release suggestion

2012-07-01 Thread ThorstenB
Am 01.07.2012 05:52, schrieb syd adams: > Before the next release , maybe it would be a good idea to disable > those 'panel' outlines , which show up when you press 'C' to view > hotspots. I don't think this was intentional. The outlines aren't even properly aligned on any aircraft I checked - so