This post is mostly interesting for people using the GIT repository: FGDATA ( https://gitorious.org/fg/fgdata/ )
Some months ago we decided to host our aircraft on an SVN repository in order to relieve the fgdata.
The fgdata repo would be a mirror of the base package.
Since some hours (and after a lot of work) we finally moved all our aircraft in the new SVN repo: http://sourceforge.net/p/flightgear/fgaddon/
This repository is named "FGAddon" because its content is not required to run FlightGear, a file not required but providing a new feature (in this case it's aircraft) is usually called an "addon".
On user-side, the most important feature is to be able to checkout only wanted aircraft, you do no longer need to download the +400 aircraft at once.
On developper-side, the most important interest is to have a base-package like which is lighter to sync for new contributors and easier to maintain when realease is built.
A mini HowTo:
* For Windows: install TortoiseSVN (http://tortoisesvn.net/)
* For Linux/Mac: install SVN
Then to pick an aircraft (in this example we pick up the DR400-dauphin):
- Code: Select all
svn co https://svn.code.sf.net/p/flightgear/fgaddon/trunk/Aircraft/DR400-dauphin
Then you can regularly pick the last update with
- Code: Select all
svn up
If you used to use GIT it's finally not so different to run "git clone" or "git pull"
PS: for our aircraft developer who usually don't read the mailing list (I hope it doesn't exist but just in case), please read this topic: https://sourceforge.net/p/flightgear/ma ... sg32809711
Kind regards,
Clément