[Scummvm-devel] Suggestion

[Max Horn]

Am 15.10.2005 um 19:34 schrieb Joachim Eberhard:

> Dear ScummVM team!
>
> I would like to suggest that you maintain 2 versions of target-md5  
> lists
> starting from 0.8.0 stable.
>
> One version for stable 0.8.0 release and one version for the post  
> 0.8.0 cvs.
>
> This way, anyone can look up what games are supported exactly by  
> the 0.8.0
> stable release.

That is what the compatibility status page is for. The MD5 list  
serves another purpose. Right now, we are a bit too strict in the  
sense that we reject games for which the MD5 is unknown. My plan is  
to relax that a bit again, ideally even before the 0.8.0 release, but  
for stability/testing reasons, it's more likely to appear in 0.8.1.  
Hence there is no point in maintaining a separate MD5 list.


> I also would like to suggest to update the date of the latest  
> change at the
> bottom of the md5 table on the webpage. The last date of change states
>
> Last updated: $Date: 2004/02/07 17:32:38 $
Yeah, that date reflects the last modification date of md5.xml, not  
of md5.inc. We should indeed fix that.

Technical discussion: The solution that comes to mind is to modify  
the md5table tool to generate a little bit more code, setting some  
kind of "$date" variable, which then can be used within md5.xml.


Bye,
Max