[Flightgear-devel] Beta aircraft hangar

[James Turner]

Hi Curt (and other people)

I want to try the latest status of the MD-11, which is in the main trunk of FGaddon. When I was maintaining the official hangar, I was re-generaitng the packages approximately twice a week (actually ‘when I remembered’) so I could try latest versions.

Now we’re hosting the hangar officially, I have the impression we are (probably wisely) having a stable hangar for the previously released version. Can we also run a development hangar at a parallel url?

I would suggest:

package ID: org.flightgear.development
description: ‘this hangar contains the latest versions of official FlightGear aircraft. It is only expected to work with the most recent release of FligthGear and may contain major bugs and issues’

… and then run a cron job daily or weekly to generate this from FGaddon trunk.

What do you think?

Doing this will force me to deal with improving the aircraft-browsing UI, to better deal with similar or identical packages from distinct hangars, but I am willing to do that! (Since we will have a stable and dev version of each aircraft)

Kind regards,
James

[Rebecca N. Palmer]

You can directly use aircraft downloaded via SVN in the launcher (add
fgaddon/trunk/Aircraft to "Additional aircraft locations"), but the
launcher obviously can't update them (use 'svn update' for that).

[James Turner]

Post by Rebecca N. Palmer
You can directly use aircraft downloaded via SVN in the launcher (add
fgaddon/trunk/Aircraft to "Additional aircraft locations"), but the
launcher obviously can't update them (use 'svn update' for that).

Oh of course, that’s what I was/am doing - but it would be nice if a wider audience could try beta aircraft.

Kind regards,
James

[Curtis Olson]

I am actually pushing updated aircraft up to the server on a regular basis
(I need to check if things have run the past few days ....) So you should
see all the aircraft updates at least current of a few days ago.

Best regards,

Curt.

Post by Rebecca N. Palmer
You can directly use aircraft downloaded via SVN in the launcher (add
fgaddon/trunk/Aircraft to "Additional aircraft locations"), but the
launcher obviously can't update them (use 'svn update' for that).

Oh of course, that’s what I was/am doing - but it would be nice if a wider
audience could try beta aircraft.
Kind regards,
James
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[James Turner]

I am actually pushing updated aircraft up to the server on a regular basis (I need to check if things have run the past few days ....) So you should see all the aircraft updates at least current of a few days ago.

Ah okay, same as I was doing then.

Thanks for clarifying!

Kind regards,
James

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Post by Rebecca N. Palmer
You can directly use aircraft downloaded via SVN in the launcher (add
fgaddon/trunk/Aircraft to "Additional aircraft locations"), but the
launcher obviously can't update them (use 'svn update' for that).

that's what i do here which james had to fix some --launcher code and
assumptions because of ;)