[Scummvm-devel] RE : Re: Augmented target name

[Bertrand Augereau]

Concerning augmented names, what we generally do at my
place in serialization code when we need renaming is
allow aliases during a transition time before making
them expire.
Here it would translate into leaving all the engines
as they are and making kyra save with new names and be
able to reload with both during six months for
instance... Then definitely clean the code and remove
the hack.
I doubt any player will not play kyra for 6 months
then suddenly want to load his deprecated saves :)
The goal is to be flexible for a while at the cost of
a hack in the code but this hack has an expire point
so everybody in the team is confident it will go away.
You mileage may^H^H^H will definitely vary.

Bertrand

--- Eugene Sandulenko <sev at scummvm.org> a écrit :

> On Mon, 7 Apr 2008 00:07:10 +0200
> Max Horn <max at quendi.de> wrote:
> 
> > Are there any *strong* and well-founded opinions
> on this?
> > Shall we augment target names or not?
> > If yes, do you have any strong preference for
> which style to use?
> > And please, state *reasons*, telling me that
> "yellow is much nicer  
> > than blue" doesn't help ;-),
> Yes, we should use that wherever possible.
> 
> My vote is for dashes because that is how it is used
> in majority of our
> engines. I.e. when we switch Kyra detection to
> augmented scheme, no
> matter which, it could have influence on users in
> sense of renamed
> savestates, so this is unavoidable. But I see no
> reason no need to
> break that for all other engines which use
> AdvancedDetector.
> 
> To summarize:
> 
>   - Yes, use augmented names for kyra
>   - Yes, Kyra will be "broken" by this change
>   - No, it is BAD to break other engines, so stick
> to dashes
> 
> And talking about shift usage yesterday on IRC I
> just explained why it
> came in the first place, not why this scheme stays
> as such (another
> reason for dashes is that we historically did not
> use mnkoey1_2 for
> clashed names, but monkey1-2).
> 
> 
> Eugene
> 
>
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