From: James T. <zak...@ma...> - 2011-10-01 14:29:51
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On 1 Oct 2011, at 03:33, Curtis Olson wrote: > That could very well be true ... and I don't think it would be a huge coding change ... but it should be done in a way that bumps up the btg version number and picks a new packet id so as to maintain backwards compatibility with all the existing scenery out there. Just looking at the relevant Simgear code - it already runs through GZip, so I'm not worried about overhead there - and the versioning system looks pretty sane to deal with too. There's already the version check for short-vs-unsigned-short counts, adding a new version increment and making the values longs looks pretty easy. BUT, if I modify the current Simgear code on 'next', is that the only place that needs to be changed, or is there another copy of this code somewhere in the terragear repo? I know terragear depends on simgear, but I've not looked at which code is actually shared. James |