Re: [Flightgear-devel] Addon livery handling

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On 05.06.2023 11:08, James Turner wrote:
>> Also, if we understand you correctly here, we'd add an additional 
>> layer
>> which we'd prefer not to as it (imo) adds options for people to mess 
>> up
>> when adding custom livery directories -> more support.
> 
> I’m not sure what you mean by ‘additional layer' here, can you explain 
> a bit more?

Another directory where stuff is in.
Like $dir/Liveries/<aircraft-id> instead of simply using just 
$dir/<aircraft-id>

>> (Tho the ultimate goal would be a launcher like thing to download
>> liveries automatically like for aircraft)
> 
> The package system can absolutely support that, only rule for a package 
> is that it has some kind of property-xml that says what is inside the 
> package so it can be indexed.

You mean like the hangar file for aircraft?