legoboyvdlp wrote in Mon Apr 27, 2015 4:14 pm:So you accept that FGMembers is an alternative to FGAddon, and you don't mind?
Unfortunately, you folks don't seem to understand what this is about - a number of core developers have worked together for a number of years to explicitly support this particular use-case of having an arbitrary number of 3rd party hangars - you can see this by looking at the "Aircraft Center", the "Package Manager" (which predates the AC by years), and more recently, even by the way the Qt5-based UI is developed (and apparently even by Phi striving to support certain package manager functionality).
All of these pre-date "fgmembers" by several years
As others have rightly pointed out, other hangars have never stirred any confusion, and are in fact quite popular (think "fguk").
People are hoping to better formalize the concept of "hangars" and make this a first class concept inside FG, so that end-users no longer need to worry where an aircraft comes from, or how it is developed - all of this is well documented, and it's a stated mid-term goal.
A number of long-time contributors have carefully explained where the problem with "fgmembers" started and how it became worse due to certain behavior and misrepresentation of "facts".
Thorsten summed up the main reasons a few postings earlier, others, like Stuart, Torsten and James have provided more in-depth explanations on the devel list (most of which are summed up on the wiki, too).
So you won't find a single long-term contributor opposed to 3rd party hangars - the crucial point here is understanding what a "hangar" is and how it relates to fgdata/fgaddon, and what fgmember ultimately is (as per Thorsten's explanation) above, and how this relates to existing/future team work, especially when it comes to long-term maintenance (think branching, forking) and collaboration among related efforts.
We cannot possibly spoon-feed all this stuff to you every day, so we expect people to actually read what's been previously stated by those actually working towards this, i.e. 3rd party hangar support, directly built into FlightGear - and to understand the difference when it comes to fgmembers.