Re: [Flightgear-bugs] Issue 734 in flightgear-bugs: Disabling AI traffic in fgrun disables entire AI module

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Updates:
	Status: WontFix

Comment #9 on issue 734 by bre...@gmail.com: Disabling AI traffic in fgrun  
disables entire AI module
http://code.google.com/p/flightgear-bugs/issues/detail?id=734

Fred, the option probably made sense ages ago, when the AI module was only  
used for a single purpose: to process AI scenarios. Now that loads of  
features depend on it, it's just a bad option. Users cannot understand its  
consequences. And they don't want to. They want to enable/disable features  
they "know" (e.g. local weather/traffic/MP). User cannot understand that  
all these features depend on a common internal infrastructure.

This is why we discussed in #248 to remove this option from the user's  
perspective and make sure that every individual user feature has an own  
enable/disable option (again: local weather/traffic/MP/...). Also, we  
should enable the "infrastructure module" internally, so a user doesn't  
need to know anything about FG internals, neither their internal switches.

#248 has now been fully implemented. If a user enables traffic, then  
traffic is enabled (and the AI module too). If a user enables MP, then MP  
is enabled (an the AI module). If he enables an AI scenario, then the AI  
scenario is enabled (and the AI module). We still need to do the same for  
local weather and wildfire.

So, "ai-models" are enabled automatically now and the external command-line  
switch becomes useless/deprecated. Hence, you could remove the "ai-models"  
switch from fgrun. Or, even better, alternatively provide a switch to  
enable/disable *traffic* instead  
(--enable-ai-traffic/--disable-ai-traffic). Many users would certainly like  
a traffic switch in fgrun, since the AI traffic module has a large  
performance impact - so it'd be nice if fgrun had a switch to disable it.

But of course, we cannot influence what you provide in fgrun. It is your  
project and alone up to you to decide. I won't comment on this again.