Re: [Plib-devel] SGSky class

[Steve B. <sjb...@ai...>]

"Curtis L. Olson" wrote:
> 
> I've been working on adapting the FlightGear sky code to be a "drop
> in" sky class for use in any plib/ssg based programs.
> 
> For those that are interested, here is the initial documentation for
> my SGSky class:
> 
>     http://www.simgear.org/Docs/SGSky/

This looks *great*! 

> As I've found quite often before, sitting down and documenting
> something makes me ask why in the heck did I impliment it that way and
> exposes lots of little inconsistancies and organizational issues. :-)

None of those are really obvious.

> This is part of my larger "SimGear" package:  www.simgear.org

So do you want it to remain a part of SimGear - or should I slurp it
up into an SSG-UT (utility toolkit) library?

I can see how incorporating the things that FGFS needs (like SGEphemeris)
would be hard if it were a part of SSG-UT - but if it would certainly
be quite a bit more useful to non-simulation users if it were inside
PLIB (one less dependancy!).

(Of course, it doesn't have to be either/or - it could be in both -
separately maintained).

> I'm happy to entertain comments, feedback, questions, etc.

Until I get time to play with it, it's hard to say.  The API looks
pretty good though.

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