[Scummvm-devel] Game description/compatibility database

[Max Horn]

Hi there,

Kirben suggested today on IRC briefly to move the game desc stuff  
from the Wiki into some kind of database. That sounds quite appealing  
to me. DOSbox does something like this (see <http:// 
dosbox.sourceforge.net/comp_list.php>). So, the idea would be to have  
a databased, with an entry for each game (or possibly each game  
variant), collecting the stuff we put on the wiki (so including a  
"free text BLOB"). But also stuff like the compatiblity level in each  
version (i.e. compat rating in HEAD; in 0.10.0; in 0.9.x; etc.).

The advantage would be a central (and hence, never out-of-sync)  
collection of all the data. The compatibility pages could be  
generated from this database. BUt also description pages for  
individual games. The on-site screenshots could also be integrated  
with the system. So would the game data file list, and maybe also the  
MD5 tables (if we wanted to).

The main problem of the whole idea, in my eyes, is that somebody  
needs to design and implement this... So it's probably just yet  
another pipedream :-). But maybe somebody is interested in working on  
this (including the database coding part? :-).


Cheers,
Max