[Opengc-devel] OpenGC CVS reorganization

[Damion S. <be...@cs...>]

Hi,

I've spent the last few days reorganizing the OpenGC CVS repository, 
with the end result hopefully being more streamlined and laid out in a 
more intuitive fashion. Specifically, the changes are as follows:

1) Removed out-of-date code (for instance, GlutMaster code)

2) Moved simgear code to its own directory and updated to SimGear 0.31 
versions of the files

3) Added ExternalLibraries directory which contains archives of the 
external libraries OpenGC relies on - although this increases the size 
of the overall checkout it should remove ambiguity as to what file 
versions are required

4) Added a Documentation directory, to contain any present and future 
documentation on OpenGC (a LaTeX typeset manual is in the works)

5) A fairly substantial change: it was pointed out to me that arial.ttf 
is a copyrighted file, so OpenGC will be switching to the freeware Vera 
typeface set. Vera.ttf is now included in the fonts directory, and the 
font manager has been modified to include a "LoadDefaultFont()" 
function. Many (but not all) gauges and components have been updated to 
call this default function. You should use this in your gauges unless 
you a) have a good reason not to and b) are using a freeware font. Once 
all gauges and components have been checked over, arial.ttf will be 
removed from the repository. Vera is quite nice looking, and is 100% 
legal.

Also, the build process has been changed slightly in preparation for 
the new nav functionality. Specifically, the simgear code is once again 
built - it had been disabled since December during reorganization but 
is now active. I have tested this under MacOS X, and will be running 
tests under Windows over the next few days.

To get this changes, do the following:

1) Archive any code you have been working on
2) Delete your opengc and opengcbin directories
3) Check out a fresh copy of opengc
4) Manually merge any changes
5) Rebuild

A final note: I mentioned this several weeks ago, but OpenGC now 
requires FTGL 2.0 (included in the repository) to build. No earlier 
versions of FTGL will work. Sorry for the hassle, but these mods have 
been accumulating for a while and hopefully will improve things in the 
long run. Once I get things stable across all platforms this will be 
released as version 0.50.

Cheers,
-Damion-

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