Re: [Flightgear-devel] MP Liveries for Boeing 737-300

[Stuart B. <stu...@ya...>]

Gijs de Rooy wrote:
> I've collected 26 liveries, put them in one file and added the livery selection
> dialog. Melchior asked me to put this on the mailinglist, as we have to discuss
> if it's really helpfull to put 26 liveries for one plane in CVS. At the moment we 
> have around 130 liveries (click) available throughout the net. We should have
> one place to collect them all (if that's CVS or not, I don't care). 
> 
> The file is attached to this mail. I have put all the textures in .png format as it
> saves us a lot of space. Now all the liveries together are only 6 MB instead of
> 14.5, with .rgb. Disadvantage is that they don't work on the older versions...
> 
> Please let me know what you think.
 
My view is that they should be kept with the aircraft.

I also think that AIrcraft should be separated from the base data in CVS. At present the CVS data repository is huge, and most of that size is due to the number of aircraft we have. Checking out a new copy of the data currently takes hours, and is only going to take long as the number of aircraft inevitably increase.

Splitting out a new Aircraft repository would also allow us to relax our CVS commit policy - so aircraft developers would have CVS commit rights for their own aircraft.

Of course, there will be some pain involved, but I think we're going to have to do this at some point, and the sooner we do it, the easier it will be.

-Stuart