c172p in fgdata

Stuart Buchanan <[email protected]> Tue, 23 Jun 2026 09:52:56 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.games.flightgear.devel
Message-ID <CAP3ntyv4dVA896usJ1YkqMUWKeHWC4Cz67AUqVXmtSyG+XPaKQ@mail.gmail.com>
Hi Folks,

As you will know, we currently have two aircraft in the fgdata git repo -
the ufo and c172p.  The c172p is synced manually by me on an irregular
basis from the c172p-team repo.  Thanks to the c172p-team for their work
maintaining and improving the aircraft.

Our packaging scripts are capable of packaging up the c172p directly from
the c172p-team repo instead, so we could just remove the c172p from
fgdata.  Doing so would remove the dependency on someone doing a manual
sync,  keep the packaged c172p more up to date, and reduce the size of
fgdata.

The downside to this approach is that folks using git fgdata would
no-longer have a real aircraft available for testing within fgdata itself.

Is that an issue for any developers?

Personally, I have external aircraft checkouts already, and spend most of
my time "flying" the ufo!

Best regards,

-Stuart

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