Wiki Links to outdated source

[llsouder]

I am new to flightgear and when I search the wiki I often find links to the old sourceforge source.

If I google it gets worse because I find more source forge links and it would appear to the causal googler that flightgear was last touched in 2009.

It take a lot of persistenance to find the github site and then because of the other sites I am not confident I even have the latest code. Could someone put some links to the new stuff on the sourceforge site? Maybe even delete remove the code and put just a README that says "go to github"

In the wiki there are things like: http://wiki.flightgear.org/Generic_protocol at the bottom I am linked to sourceforge via http://sourceforge.net/p/flightgear/fgd ... /README.IO. The makes me doubt I have the right stuff from gitourious.

[llsouder]

In fact I will fix the links just let me know if https://github.com/FlightGear/flightgea ... /README.IO is correct.

[rominet]

The SourceForge links are correct, and the GitHub site is not officially endorsed by the FlightGear project as far as I know. What makes you think “FlightGear was last touched in 2009”? It is very likely that, among the thousands of files comprising FG, some of them were last touched years ago, but that doesn't speak for the FlightGear program or project as a whole!

[Hooray]

Agreed, sourceforge/p/flightgear is the only official repository, everything else are clones/forks or topic branches.
The "old" links were gitorious.org

Also, please don't add absolute links to sourceforge, but use the repo link template instead - the whole point of having such templates is to "encapsulate" these things, so that when/if things need to be updated again, there is only a single place/file to be updated (said template), instead of having to update hundreds of article:

http://wiki.flightgear.org/Template:Repo_link


PS: The github repo seems to be maintained by another contributor (ac001 on the forum), the same contributors who's running docs.freeflightsim.org (doxygen for all fg related code): http://api-docs.freeflightsim.org/simgear/

[bugman]

The correct way to do this is via the source code wiki templates. There are a series of these templates:

http://wiki.flightgear.org/Template:Repo_link
http://wiki.flightgear.org/Template:Flightgear_file
http://wiki.flightgear.org/Template:Flightgear_commit
http://wiki.flightgear.org/Template:Simgear_file
http://wiki.flightgear.org/Template:Simgear_commit
http://wiki.flightgear.org/Template:Fgdata_file
http://wiki.flightgear.org/Template:Fgdata_commit
http://wiki.flightgear.org/Template:Fgaddon_url
http://wiki.flightgear.org/Template:Fgaddon_revision

In this case you would simply use {{fgdata file|Docs/README.IO}}. Feel free to update all old links you find on the wiki using these templates - there are far too many of them!

Regards,
Edward

[Hooray]

Again, bugman is correct - please look up the corresponding template/s, you can simply take one of the examples and adapt it for different files.

There should never be any explicit URLs pointing to sourceforge/gitorious etc.

[llsouder]

OH wow! we are using the wrong stuff! I found http://api-docs.freeflightsim.org/ and this is not FG.

I looked at the git log and can see my code is a year old.

Thank you so much! I need to re-group and download the correct code!

As far as the 2009 comment, that was because of the date on the file.

Delete this thread! I have embarrassed myself enough for now LOL!

[Hooray]

I think at least a few of the wiki articles I suggested to read do advise people to download/build the latest version

Your help in updating the wiki instructions accordingly would obviously still be appreciated

[llsouder]

Knowing to get the latest code was not the issue. knowing where to get it was the issue.

I just updated our wiki:
git clone git://git.code.sf.net/p/flightgear/flightgear.git
git clone git://git.code.sf.net/p/flightgear/simgear.git

All recompiled and running.

the help->about says I am running 3.2.0 Shouldn't I have 3.4?

[Hooray]

no

[llsouder]

Found it! make install puts "fgfs" in the /usr/local/bin directory. I have been running the wrong git repo and the wrong executable for days!

Now I see 2016.2.0 Much better!

[Johan G]

In this case you would simply use {{fgdata file|Docs/README.IO}}.

Well, there is also {{readme file|IO}} (renders as $FG_ROOT/Docs/README.IO).