About games/flightgear-aircrafts

[Greg Larkin]

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On 9/22/11 9:13 AM, Ganael LAPLANCHE wrote:
> On Thu, 22 Sep 2011 08:52:56 -0400, Greg Larkin wrote
> 
> Hi Greg,
> 
>> [...]
>> If you can break the flightgear airplanes (or subsets of 
>> airplanes) into a number of add-on ports, that would be one 
>> way to avoid the huge download problem, as well as an 
>> excessive number of OPTIONS in the base port. Of course, the 
>> add-on port idea assumes that airplanes can be downloaded 
>> individually in some fashion.
> 
> Thanks for this explanation.
> 
> I had thought about that option too, but the same questions as my first
> solution remain : what should be the list of the available ports ? I
> really have no idea here : any craft may be interesting to players.
> Also, if this list could be established, why not keep a single port
> (which would then be *a lot* easier to maintain) ?
> 
> To sum um, in my opinion, there are in really 2 options :
> 
> 1) Limit the port to a few selected aircrafts
>    => (either in one port or split)
> 2) Remove the port
> 
> I can go for 1), but I would need help to establish the list of
> aircrafts you'd like... :p
> 
> Best regards,

I don't use flightgear, so others would have a better opinion than me
about how to partition the airplane ports.  Is there a forum on the
upstream distro site where you could ask?

You can also break them by first letter of the distfile names, combining
where appropriate.  An analysis of the number of distfiles per first
letter of the filename yields:

2 1
7 16
a 35
b 30
c 30
d 29
e 5
f 28
g 5
h 18
i 2
j 9
k 8
l 17
m 22
n 6
o 4
p 22
q 1
r 10
s 32
t 8
u 2
v 7
w 1
x 2
y 3
z 2

You could combine some letters together and make a bunch of add-on ports
with ~30 planes per port.

Regards,
Greg
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