Re: [Celestia-developers] Celestia Source Package.

[Fridger S. <fri...@de...>]

Pat,

some other issues:

In the README file, I noticed that you recently included /2 links to 
Celestia WEB sites/ without communicating these changes in the list.  
While I completely agree that Selden's and Christophe's sites contain a 
host of valuable information, your Gnome site that you also included 
besides Christophe's,  has mainly some screenshots and links to the 
other sites (for now)...Did I overlook something more essential here?

On the other hand, you left out my TextureFoundry site that was not only 
the /first/ site in existence for (high quality) Celestia textures,  but 
in particular, its download directory

http://www.shatters.net/~t00fri/

contains a host of stuff that people apparently WANT, like updates of my 
very popular virtualtex 'VT chopper' script, my gazetteer Earth location 
file with 40000+ locations, my full-sized Titan, Saturn and Iapetus 
textures, my Maple worksheets with math derivations, my various asterism 
designs, all FT celestia versions  and many other  such things. Since 
all the stuff I publish via the forum referred and will refer in the 
future  to that directory, I find your omission not very appropriate. 
;-)  My TextureFoundry (texture) site is also included in the Link page 
of the main Celestia site. Since July 26 2002 it had 167751 
visitors/downloaders...

Of course, I could  have included my site as well into README at any 
time. Yet, if someone attempts to do that job on behalf of all of us, it 
should be done well...Otherwise, things may easily get distorted, in 
particular if the changes are not documented in the developers list.

Besides editing the README file (that is signed by Chris...), you also 
edited the AUTHORS list on your own, which traditionally is done by 
Chris, after some joint discussions perhaps...

In this context, I also noted that you turned Grant into a "Past 
Developer" in the About.. of your Gtk and Gnome ports. This is simply 
not correct/fair. Grant /continuously/ provides most valuable 
astronomical data updates to Celestia, as  may be easily checked from 
his numerous and regular commits.  He is in frequent communication with 
some of us (including myself). Grant has never done any coding, but 
always took care of many of Celestia's astronomical data files.

Bye Fridger
 
Pat Suwalski wrote:
> Hello again,
>
> I released the celestia-1.4.0.tar.bz2 file under Celestia-Unix. I didn't
> know that packages could be renamed so I was waiting for a
> Celestia-Source to show up. But instead, let's rename Celestia-Unix to
> Celestia-Source.
>
> It would still be nice to have a Celestia-Linux though.
>
> --Pat
>
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