free candy
May. 22nd, 2004 11:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mmcirvinFlightGear is pretty cool—the atmospheric effects are gorgeous.
But you know you're dealing with a geek-run open-source project when the allegedly ready-to-run binary you download requires you to first put a symbolic link to a configuration file in your home directory, and then edit the configuration file to manually tell it the path where the resources are located, and this doesn't work the first time because it doesn't understand the ~ symbol in pathnames, and after fixing that it still doesn't work because the configuration file's actual name is misspelled. (And you'll end up editing that config file frequently, because it appears that most of the program's options have no user interface.)
I know, I know, it's evil for me to mention this without first joining the project and fixing it. Anyway, it's nice to see a flight sim this fancy out there for free.
But you know you're dealing with a geek-run open-source project when the allegedly ready-to-run binary you download requires you to first put a symbolic link to a configuration file in your home directory, and then edit the configuration file to manually tell it the path where the resources are located, and this doesn't work the first time because it doesn't understand the ~ symbol in pathnames, and after fixing that it still doesn't work because the configuration file's actual name is misspelled. (And you'll end up editing that config file frequently, because it appears that most of the program's options have no user interface.)
I know, I know, it's evil for me to mention this without first joining the project and fixing it. Anyway, it's nice to see a flight sim this fancy out there for free.