[Scummvm-devel] Buildbot reminder

[Marcus Comstedt]

Max Horn <max at quendi.de> writes:

> * For the DC a CD disc image would be nice. Marcus, the DC disc images  
> currently all use Nero. Is that mandatory?

I'm not especially happy myself about the use of Nero, however it is
the only solution I've found for creating a single image of a
multi-session disc.  You'd expect that a program like cdrdao could do
it, but no, it can only operate on one session at a time, so it should
really be called cdrsao...

I could probably whip something up which creates a Nero image from
the plainfiles using software only though, the file format is mostly
reversed, and I don't need a lot of flexibility in the disc layouts
I create.

If I do that, I think I should include the demos like I do on the
release CD, but I assume that the new "flexibility" would allow me to
do stuff outside of the source tree, so that this does not become a
problem?  Come to think of it, maybe complementing the current
demos with one of the smaller shareware games could be an idea?
The compromise is of course between a very large download an a very
poorly utilized CD-R...


> Could we use something like  
> in this guide: <http://mc.pp.se/dc/cdr.html> ? Because that could be  
> automated on our buildbot host, Nero obviously not ;).

Automatically burning a physical CD that could not be automatically
dumped seems like a black hole to put money into, if you ask me.  Of
course, there was another thread talking about giving away free
shirts...  :)


  // Marcus