Update: As of yesterday, the built-in
Canvas-based Aircraft Center has been entirely removed from the FlightGear GUI, and replaced with the Qt5-based GUI, the commit message saying:
https://sourceforge.net/p/flightgear/fg ... 152d12c2a/James Turner wrote:Needs a lot of testing, but aircraft can be installed / changed and
location adjusted from within the sim. After some number of times the
sim will crash.
Note that this means that Aircraft Center functionality will no longer be available to people if they don't also happen to use Qt5 and/or Phi (not sure if package manager functionality is provided there?), i.e. this is exactly
the kind of "regression" we originally talked about, at which point we can safely
dispense with the fiction that Qt5 is not going to become a required build-dependency, unlike the
original statement made us believe.
Let's just hope that the removal of the Canvas-based Aircraft Center was coordinated with TheTom, especially given that the Canvas Aircraft Center -unlike its Qt5 replacement, wasn't exactly known for "crashing" FlightGear ...