[Scummvm-devel] Status of the Win32 Port/NSIS Installer

[Thierry Crozat]

Le 6 mai 2011 à 09:14, Max Horn a écrit :

> Hi there!
> 
> Am 05.05.2011 um 21:27 schrieb Matthew Hoops:
> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I was hoping that someone involved with the NSIS pull request
>> discussion would have already addressed this issue on the mailing
>> list, but alas, there has been none since last week. A week has passed
>> since Littleboy submitted his NSIS pull request on Github and the
>> following argument with our then-Win32 maintainer, yet nothing has
>> been said since about it. I'm very disappointed, to say the least.
> 
> Yeah, me too. Welcome in the club (though it's not really a new feeling for me, I feel like that on avarage every couple of weeks with ScummVM :).
> [...]
> 
>> Perhaps no one cares enough?
> 
> I certainly do care a great deal, both about ScummVM in general, and about the Win32 port in particular.
> 
> But due to my role in the whole thing, and how some people perceived it, it seems appropriate that I hold back for now. But I'll be happy to help out with the Win32 port (maintainer searching, helping maintain it, even test it on my Win32 machine), once the whole Kirben issue has been resolved one way or another.

I don't have Windows myself, but I do thing the Windows port is an important one and it would be good to see this issue resolved.

> 
>> Perhaps the real issue is that the
>> ScummVM team once again has problems with communication?
> 
> That's always the problem, I think. But maybe not a surprise, given that here are 50 people, from different culturues, communicating over a media that filters out a lot from the communication, leading to misunderstandings all the time; add in that working on ScummVM is not the first priority for most (all?) of us, meaning that sometimes you wish there were replies soon, but you really have to wait weeks... it's sad, but it's also IMHO perfectly normal, and understandable. We can strive to improve this, but we'll always be far from perfect.

All this is true, but I think here the main problem was that the discussion took place in a pull request on github and not everybody read those. The email from Matthew is I think the first one mentioning it on the mailing list and the first time I heard about it. We should not assume than any discussion channel other that this list (e.g. pull requests, forums, IRC) will reach the full team.

By the way I received the github email for this pull request (and 4 others) only two days ago. Hopefully that means the github issue with email notifications are now solved.

Thierry