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	== Building while downloading ==		== Building while downloading ==
	for better use of bandwidth, it would make sense to also download while compiling (i.e. when building plib and osg, download simgear, when building simgear, download flightgear - and the fgdata checkout/update can also be initiated early). It might make sense to turn the shell script into a conventional makefile that supports dependency resolution and parallel steps, so that network-bound tasks like downloading (fgdata!) can be interleaved with the build process.		for better use of bandwidth, it would make sense to also download while compiling (i.e. when building plib and osg, download simgear, when building simgear, download flightgear - and the fgdata checkout/update can also be initiated early). It might make sense to turn the shell script into a conventional makefile that supports dependency resolution and parallel steps, so that network-bound tasks like downloading (fgdata!) can be interleaved with the build process. The run_FOO scripts could then become conventional make targets.