[Celestia-developers] Climbing trip

[Chris L. <cl...@gm...>]

I will be off-line Sunday through Wednesday while climbing Mt.
Rainier. Before I go, I'd like to take care of three things:

- Commit the Modify star code (I'll provide a new version of the patch
that has Add as well as Replace and Modify)
- Commit the simplified surface object placement code
(SurfaceObject/Topocentric frame/FixedAttitude/FixedPosition)
- Check in the particle system code *disabled*; I don't want to work
on this more before 1.6.0, but I feel a bit nervous with it sitting on
my hard drive, and it doesn't seem worth creating a custom branch for
it. Aside from the new modules, the only code change is three extra
lines in meshmanager.cpp. Reasonable?

I think my chances of summitting this time are only about 50/50
because of weather; temperatures at the summit will be -20C and
there's a good chance of snow above 2500m. A friend of mine was on the
mountain last week when half a meter of snow fell. His rope team was
caught in a small slab avalanche and almost swept off a cliff.
Fortunately, I don't think that much snow is in the forecast this
time.

--Chris