by Hooray » Wed Mar 23, 2016 9:05 pm
It isn't too difficult to update the wiki article to make the git instructions work again with the changed URLs - but quite frankly, wkitty42 got a point, people who cannot work out the necessary changes are rather unlikely to succeed building a patch fg/osgEarth version anyway, especially given the recent changes - i.e. there will inevitably a manual process involved (rebasing sg/fg accordingly).
Thus, my opinion is that it's not such a bad thing that people have to do some legwork first to really face those problems - otherwise, the forum may be flooded with compilation errors due to someone working out the git instructions to change the d&c script, without understanding C++ well enough to actually make the rebase succeed.
Regarding poweroftwo, I have been in touch with him and my understanding is that he's extremely busy with other things currently, unrelated to FlightGear -so that it's really up to our power users to update the build instructions accordingly.