[Scummvm-devel] Location of the engine-data files

[Max Horn]

Did we ever come to any consensus regarding this mail from Jordi below?

Bye,
Max

Am 30.09.2007 um 23:36 schrieb Jordi Vilalta:

> Hi,
>
> with the release of ScummVM 0.10.0 it was recommended that the
> packagers also distribute the engine-data files together with the
> ScummVM package. Since those files are now considered part of the
> application and not an add-on, this made me wonder whether their
> current location in the subversion tree is optimal.
>
> I'm proposing moving those files to scummvm/dists, where other data
> files are standing (like pred.dic).
>
> The main advantages I see are that the porters could build the full
> package from just the source tarball (without needing to get extra
> files from other sources), and that the version of the data files
> would always be in sync with the version needed by the code (I
> remember seeing troubles to find kyra.dat for 0.9 and 0.10...). I
> think this would ease ways to make automated builds, and would help
> daily builds come together with the compatible data files (I think
> this will be useful once the testing of Lure of the Temptress starts,
> for example).
>
> On the other side, as sev said while having this discussion on
> #scummvm, those files would raise the weight of the source
> distribution. The current data files are almost 2Mb versus 31Mb of
> source code of 0.10. Once compressed with .tar.bz2, the sizes come
> down to 650Kb of data files vs 4,6Mb of the source distribution.
>
> I'm not part of the team and I'm not involved on any part of the
> process, so just consider it as a view from the outside. I hope
> something I said makes sense ;)
>
> Regards,
>
> Jordi Vilalta
>
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