Re: The endless influx of low-quality, low-realism, quantity-over-quality aircraft into FGAddon

Hi,

Le 25/05/2026, [email protected] a écrit:

> i'm aware there's a script to process craft directories located somewhere to
> create the catalog file but i don't know where the script is and do not see
> anything in the UI pointing me in that direction or to full detailed
> instructions on how to use it... especially if the catalog is to contain craft
> from various repos across the 'net...

fg-build-catalog is presented here in its repo (scroll down for the
rendering of its README.md):

  https://gitlab.com/flightgear/fgmeta-python/-/tree/next/catalog?ref_type=heads

If you have a single dir containing aircraft (say, a particular FGAddon
branch or the trunk) and you want to create a hangar containing a subset
of these aircraft, then <include> should help (its reverse is <skip>;
not sure both can be used at the same time). An example I used for
testing (this belongs to catalog.config.xml file):

  <scm>
    <type>no-scm</type>
    <update type="bool">false</update>
    <path>flo-test-catalog/repo</path>
    <include>bluebird</include>
  </scm>

In this case, I had a directory containing a few craft zip files, and
for some tests I wanted to only process the 'bluebird'.

If you look at the official catalog files, e.g.

  https://gitlab.com/flightgear/fgmeta-python/-/blob/next/catalog/stable-2024-catalog/catalog.config.xml?ref_type=heads

you'll see elements like this:

  <scm>
    <type>svn</type>
    <path>svn-2024.1</path>
    <repo>svn://svn.code.sf.net/p/flightgear/fgaddon/branches/release-2024.1/Aircraft</repo>

    <!-- skip the following aircraft dirs -->
    <skip>NTPS</skip>
    <skip>c172</skip>
    <skip>tu134</skip>
  </scm>

(and one with <include-only>yes</include-only> for includes relying on
files from FGData)

Git is also supported. I'm not the author of fg-build-catalog, so I know
it rather superficially, however I believe it makes it possible to
compile aircraft from different source repositories by means of several
<scm> elements.

Of course you'd also need to make the result available to your users,
therefore upload it somewhere unless you only use the hangar locally.
fg-build-catalog's catalog.config.xml files may contain <upload>
elements that support rsync over SSH (cf. the official files, again).

Regards

-- 
Florent


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