Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear mapserver offline

2012-06-01 Thread Pascal J. Bourguignon
Michael Sgier scrat_h...@yahoo.com writes: Still down: The server at scenemodels.flightgear.org is taking too long to respond. The server at mapserver.flightgear.org is taking too long to respond. etc. Sigh...only in USA. The last swiss power outage must have been ~10 years ago and only

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Nasal performance

2012-05-20 Thread Pascal J. Bourguignon
Erik Hofman e...@ehofman.com writes: On Sun, 2012-05-20 at 10:43 +, Renk Thorsten wrote: Advanced Weather doesn't burn any significant performance inside Nasal - it burns the performance by calling hard-coded C++ functionality from Nasal. I hope you're not suggesting that C++ is always

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Sea color

2012-05-09 Thread Pascal J. Bourguignon
Renk Thorsten thorsten.i.r...@jyu.fi writes: There are good sources for sea colour out there - here is one: http://oceancolor.gsfc.nasa.gov/FEATURE/IMAGES/A2008129125500.Scotland.png The Northern North Sea, away from the turbidity and major river outfalls of the Southern North Sea, is

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear Newsletter - April 2011

2011-05-01 Thread Pascal J. Bourguignon
Gijs de Rooy gijsr...@hotmail.com writes: I'll keep it short this time (as I got some FG work to do myself), so here's the link to the April edition of our monthly newsletter: http://wiki.flightgear.org/FlightGear_Newsletter_April_2011 Papillon81's git repo is not available: [pjb@kuiper :0

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Future repository for non-GPL aircraft

2011-04-20 Thread Pascal J. Bourguignon
Ryan M tpbspamm...@gmail.com writes: Something I've always thought about is an official aircraft repository that contained non-GPL2 aircraft- straight from the authors, of course. There are many aircraft for FlightGear that are not GPL-licensed (some of them very well-developed, like the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] props protocol problem

2011-04-16 Thread Pascal J. Bourguignon
ThorstenB bre...@gmail.com writes: On 16.04.2011 02:06, Pascal J. Bourguignon wrote: The props data protocol ls command has a problem: there's no way to determine that its output is complete (unless we use a timer, which would mean that all ls commands would suspend the client for the time

[Flightgear-devel] props protocol problem

2011-04-15 Thread Pascal J. Bourguignon
The props data protocol ls command has a problem: there's no way to determine that its output is complete (unless we use a timer, which would mean that all ls commands would suspend the client for the time out duration). I'm proposing to add a lsx command, similar to ls, but that will terminate

[Flightgear-devel] fg_property_scale

2011-04-12 Thread Pascal J. Bourguignon
Hello, It seems to me that in fg_property_scale, it would be more useful if the power was applied after the linear scaling. The problem I have is to map the radar range axis, from [-1.0,+1.0] to [5.0,200.0]. But a linear scale is not too nice, so I'd want to apply a power 2.5 or 2.7.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Nasal Garbage Collector

2011-04-12 Thread Pascal J. Bourguignon
Robert dogg...@googlemail.com writes: In the case of nasal, I believe the garbage collection pass must be done in a single atomic step, otherwise it would leave the heap in an inconsistent state and adversely affect the scripts. I completely agree with you. Now I understand the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Changing ICAO codes

2011-04-12 Thread Pascal J. Bourguignon
Martin Spott martin.sp...@mgras.net writes: Arnt Karlsen wrote: On Mon, 11 Apr 2011 11:49:14 + (UTC), Martin wrote in message inuprq$pc4a$1...@osprey.mgras.de: Shapefiles go into a PostGIS database, the Landcover-DB behind The FlightGear MapServer. Actually it's exactly the same

Re: [Flightgear-devel] link error on jpgRenderFrame in next pulled this night.

2011-04-11 Thread Pascal J. Bourguignon
Erik Hofman e...@ehofman.com writes: On Mon, 2011-04-11 at 05:39 +0200, Pascal J. Bourguignon wrote: I just checked out the next branches in simgear and flightgear and pulled them, and when compiling with: I think you either need to configure simgear using --with-jpeg-factory or need to doe

[Flightgear-devel] link error on jpgRenderFrame in next pulled this night.

2011-04-10 Thread Pascal J. Bourguignon
I just checked out the next branches in simgear and flightgear and pulled them, and when compiling with: #!/bin/bash base=/data/src/simulation/fg/ prefix=/opt/fgfs rsynch=rsync -HSWacvxz --progress --force --delete

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Parking position names with spaces, a problem?

2011-04-08 Thread Pascal J. Bourguignon
On 2011/04/08, at 14:45 , Roland Häder wrote: Hi all, for example the airport LFPG has a parking position with a name with spaces in it. My little launcher script [1] does currently not support this because of a for() loop will break those spaces into seperate lines. Assume that