Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft update in launcher

[Erik H. <er...@eh...>]

On 11/14/19 11:44 PM, Michael Danilov wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 14, 2019 at 10:04:56PM +0000, merspieler wrote:
>> Is there a reason for downloading the entire aircraft every time it
>> gets updated instead of just pulling a diff (eg. git pull or the svn
>> equivalent)?
> 
> I was about to ask the same question! Personally, this is one of the
> reasons I keep installing aircraft from git or svn instead of
> launcher.

I think the launcher downloads a complete zip archive of the aircraft 
created from the latest FlightGear release so the aircraft and software 
are guaranteed to match.

Which makes sense for the average user, but maybe less for developers.


Erik

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