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The longer term goals include (1) improving the process for aircraft authors' work to be included in the default distribution, and b) make it easier for groups like FGUK to integrate their own hangars into the Qt launcher aircraft management tools. For developers who wish to opt-in, being part of the default distribution would offer far wider exposure of your work. From an end user perspective, this will provide an easy/integrated point and click way to install (and update) the aircraft they are interested in. An aircraft author (or 3rd party hangar maintainer) can publish an 'addon' url that is copy/pasted into the add on page of the Qt launcher and all the new aircraft show up immediately. James has done some really nice work on the Qt side to pull all this together for the end-users. This will be another step forward in the larger process we laid out a while back. <ref>{{cite web | |||
|url = https://forum.flightgear.org/viewtopic.php?p=287894#p287894 | |||
|title = <nowiki> Re: A call for FlightGear wiki logos for the 3rd party hanga </nowiki> | |||
|author = <nowiki> curt </nowiki> | |||
|date = Jun 6th, 2016 | |||
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The ultimate goal is to make it easy for hangar maintainers to distribute and integrate their work with the 'new' flightgear launcher (which has now been around long enough that it's hard to call new.) James's aircraft catalog system makes aircraft searching, selecting, and updating really easy and seamless for the end users. Aircraft [hangar] maintainers simply publish their catalog.xml (which is generated by the script.) A side effect is this system moves us away from dependency on fgaddon (or other even more massive repositories) and promotes smaller and more focused 3rd party repositories and a higher degree of decentraliation and scalability.<ref>{{cite web | |||
|url = https://forum.flightgear.org/viewtopic.php?p=293854#p293854 | |||
|title = <nowiki> Re: How the project works </nowiki> | |||
|author = <nowiki> curt </nowiki> | |||
|date = Sep 7th, 2016 | |||
|added = Sep 7th, 2016 | |||
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