[Scummvm-devel] Porters: Please make sure your port specific READMEs are in SVN

[Eugene Sandulenko]

On Tue, 1 Jan 2008 20:16:33 +0100
Max Horn <max at quendi.de> wrote:

> Dear porters,
> 
> following an internal discussion with Neil (our DS porter), I'd like  
> to ask the following of all porters in public:
> 
> Eugene and me would really appreciate (as we stated in various
> places in the past, but never formalized) if all files required to
> build a port binary were stored in our subversion repository.
Well, yes, we never said it explicitly in our official sources, but
there were quite clear implicit statements. For instance, here is an
excerpt from my ScummVM 0.10.0 release report from 17th of June, 2007:

old> Porters and port builders may start building binaries and
old> uploading them to
old>
old>   ftp://upload.sourceforge.net/incoming
old> 
old> And drop me a line with exact file name of your uploaded binary.
old> 
old> NOTE: Please, remember, that you should build from provided
old> tarballs or tags/release-0-10-0 /Without any modifications/. If
old> you will have to perform modifications, then we will have to
old> retag, and all builds submitted earlier will be obsolete.  

It does not explicitly tells that files have to be in SVN, but
implicitly you have to come to this conclusion.

It would be really good if we will do our best that every port could be
built directly from our release tarball, and preferably with
instructions provided on Wiki.

Also this could really help if we will succeed with instantiation of
compile farm.

> As always, I am eager to hear what you think about this -- if you  
> believe that for some reasons, it's not realistic to comply to this  
> request, or that it's a bad idea, please tell us so. Or just do it  
> (TM) ;-)
:)


Eugene