Re: [Flightgear-devel] size of flightgear-data

[Alan T. <ajt...@v-...>]

My suggestion to deal with the aircraft directory is this.

Populate fgdata with a bare minimum of aircraft . A starting point is those 
packed in the regular release.

Secondly include within flightgear/fgdata a database of other aircraft. This 
database should be searchable by keyword(s).

Maintain the various aircraft in smaller repositories, no more than (say) 50 
in each. The allocation to each repo is unimportant as selection is done by 
the keywords.

Add new aircraft repos as the number of aircraft increases.

Keywords could be the obvious (military, civil, helicopter, training, 
transport, vintage, spaceship etc.) but could also include fdm, status, 
author and rating.

This system is also adaptable to referring to non GPL private hangars.

Alan