[Scummvm-devel] FreeSCI merge

[Max Horn]

Am 13.02.2009 um 10:53 schrieb Johannes Schickel:

> Eugene Sandulenko schrieb:
>> I hope that there are no objection in that. I.e. it will dump about
>> 2000 revisions at once. If you are strictly against it, please,  
>> shout.
>>
>
> Fine with me.
>
>> Now the question is. Where to put it? I consider putting it into
>>
>>  /vendor/freesci/glutton
>>  /vendor/freesci/stable
>>  /vendor/freesci/web
>>
>> I haven't come with better place as I don't want to clutter the root
>> of the repository. Any thoughts?

Fine by me. So I assume you'd first import the FreeSCI repos under / 
vendor/freesci, and once that is completed, do a "svn copy" to clone  
the data into scummvm/trunk/engines/sci/, so that all files in there  
keep their full history, right?


>>
>>
>
> Actually I'm also unsure why we need to keep freesci's web page in our
> repository. I guess for historical reasons the two source code  
> branches
> should be enough. But since I'm not too much interested about  
> backups of
> web pages, it might be just me :-).

While I don't think they have to be added with its full version  
history to the repos, I do think we should keep a backup, in case we  
"forget" some of the data in the transition. The screenshots are not  
just ending screenshots, but also screenshots demonstrating certain  
features, or glitches, and stuff. BTW, Sarien had some really nice  
engine glitch screenshots, and I have some for ScummVM games on my HD.  
One of these days it would be nice to have a gallery with those, too ;-)

[One of these days it would be nice to have a revamped Website, too,  
right, vex? ;-) Maybe with a full-blown screenshot gallery with  
multiple categories. I am still a dreamer).

[...]

>> Another question is if you are agree and see benefit in having all
>> FreeSCI repo saved for historical reasons, what about doing same for
>> two other projects which we merged in the past, that is Sarien (AGI
>> engine) and Reinherit (SAGA engine). I have backups of their pre- 
>> merge
>> repositories, so that is doable.
>>
>
> I don't know if it would make too much sense, when none of the  
> original
> developers are active anymore. For other developers the additional  
> diffs
> etc. might not be really helpful.

I am not sure how useful it would be, but my understand is that it  
would be actually in particular useful for those who are *not* the  
original developers, and who want to find out why a certain line of  
code was written in the first place. But of course, if the original  
repositories are still accessible on the net, that is not necessary.  
Sarien is in the SF.net repos, right?

Now, if we had done that back when we added those engines (thus  
linking the original history right into engines/agi/ resp. engines/ 
saga/), that would have been nice :-).



Cheers,
Max