[Flightgear-devel] The scenery objects database. Why?

[Thomas S <ts2...@gm...>]

Hello all,

inspired by the current efforts of Keith for adding an interface for
airport xml files to the scenery database and the discussion in
https://forum.flightgear.org/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=35582&p=345619#p345619,
this question came to my mind:


Why do we use a database at all? (This question isn’t intended provocative,
just for understanding).


Why don’t we use a git/svn repository for storing and maintaining all the
STG, model and object files we have in the database? The git workflow
already provides features like syncing, logging  and reverting. And it
could be easier to introduce new features to the scenery (like adding new
STG verbs) while modifying the database schema always requires thorough
thoughts.


Is it an option to migrate from the database to a git repo? Or isn't there
a svn repo already that is used by terra sync? Can we just open that repo
for commits  instead of generating the files from the database?


Best Regards


Thomas

(aka ThomasS)