[Scummvm-devel] Release plans, once again

[Marcus Comstedt]

Max Horn <max at quendi.de> writes:

> Yo folks, relax :-)
>
> It just seems that different people have different opinions about how
> they want to (or "should") use their games and ScummVM. Some prefer to
> use the original media, some to use a "compilation CD" they made
> themselves... fine, no need to start a war about that.
>
> Marcus, if you could make an alternate MP3 enabled build, I am sure a
> lot of people would appreciate that. If keeping a non-MP3 version is
> good due to size reasons, that's properly a good idea, too.

I'll have to check whether it actually makes sense size-wise to make
alternate builds; libmad isn't all that large so it might only make a
difference for CoMI, which should have a special build anyway to have
a chance of running.


[...]
> Or we could simply do the opposite: dynamic *un*loading of the
> plugins... So the idea would be to first load all plugins; do all
> autodetection/target discovery/whatever we me might need. Once the
> user inserts that other CD and decides he wants to start to play, we
> can then unload all plugins except the one which is needed for that
> game. That should solve both problems mentioned above,
> actually.

Yes, this idea does indeed have merit.  The unloading will cause some
memory fragmentation, but it probably won't be a problem.


> However it'll only work if the dynamic linker allows
> unloading. On Unixish systems, there is dlclose() (though I haven't
> actually tried it yet).

I'll have to write the dynamic loader myself anyway, so I can add
whatever features I like.


  // Marcus