by Hooray » Sat Nov 05, 2016 9:37 am
Agree with Thorsten - that's extremely rare, and people doing this sort of thing need to be enormously familiar with fgfs internals to make it work. This is the sort of maintenance work that people like Torsten and James have to do every once a while, and even they seem to be baffled by all those complex interdependencies, despite being among the top 5 most experienced contributors currently involved in FlightGear.
In other words, it's highly unlikely that the pain/gain is worth it, and even if we had this working right now, it would be even more unlikely that people would know how to use this sort of thing properly, it would cause tons of work around here - just imagine what partial fgdata updates have been causing here in terms of workload caused on the forum.
FlightGear is a highly monolithic application, and has been for the last 15+ years, it is only just about to become more modular, but that is causing new challenges, such as tracking dependencies between different components (think OSG, SG, FG, FGDATA, FGADDON)