About games/flightgear-aircrafts

[Warren Block]

On Thu, 22 Sep 2011, Ganael LAPLANCHE wrote:

> 1) providing only a subset of available airplanes (i.e. *not* every
> single airplane available on the FTP servers). This would be nice, but
> requires to set up a list of the best planes to include (top 30 best
> planes ?), and that list may not be the one every single user would have
> established.
>
> 2) removing the port and consider users have to install additional
> planes *manually*. After all, those airplanes are only addons ; limiting
> the ports to flightgear + flightgear-data, which already ship with
> several airplanes, does not seem crazy to me.
>
> A third option would have been to provide the full list of available
> airplanes but only select a few of them through OPTIONS, but I'd like to
> avoid going this way : this will not simplify the port at all, it will
> only make it harder to maintain as the OPTIONS list will be huge, and
> (maybe ?) pointless for the end-user.
>
> Flightgear users, I would go for option 2), but what do *you* think ?

#2 is reasonable, IMO.  Other options, like breaking it up into multiple 
ports, would not make it easier to maintain and might be more difficult 
for users.

(Note: "aircraft" is both singular and plural, so the port name really 
should be just flightgear-aircraft.)