[Scummvm-devel] SCI & Tinsel for 0.14.0?

[Paul Gilbert]

On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 6:49 PM, Eugene Sandulenko <sev at scummvm.org> wrote:

> Hi Team,
>
> 0.14.0 release cycle will start soon, and I need your opinion.
>
> It seems that we're kind of stuck with DW-related paperwork, and it has
> been almost a year since DW is completable. Thus, I would like to know
> your opinion, should we announce DW1 & 2 as supported, effectively
> enabling it, putting on our compatibility chart (we've been accepting
> the bugreports for a while now). Once we finish the paperwork, we could
> put the game downloads.
>

Personally, I think we might as well go ahead and make the engine official.
It's stable, and been tested a lot. Even if the games themselves aren't yet
freeware, we might as well go ahead and make the engine itself official.


> Another question is about state of SCI. Could we enable it for at least
> some games? Are there any of them at decent level of compatibility? As
> with majority of our other enignes, there could be unsupported games in
> the engine which are disabled at the release builds. If you feel that
> SCI engine could be announced as supported, then we should announce
> testing for the games ASAP.
>

I'd argue against it. Although I haven't played with it much, there's been
so much on-going work on refactoring the engine, and making improvements,
that I think it would be better to leave it for the next version, and allow
the SCI team more time to finish making any core changes, and then work on
support for the majority of the SCI0/1 games, rather than just a select few
'supported' ones right now.


> 0.14.0 release schedule will start approximately in 2 weeks.
>
>
> Eugene
>

Regards,

Paul.
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