[Scummvm-devel] ScummVM 1.1.0 has been tagged

Max Horn max at quendi.de
Thu Apr 1 12:07:20 CEST 2010


Am 01.04.2010 um 11:21 schrieb Filippos Karapetis:

> Do these regressions make the games in question unplayable and/or severely crippled?
> 
> If not, then we can just put them in the README/news under a "known bugs" category - 
> all software, commercial or not, has such a category in each release, reserved for bugs
> or glitches which are known, not very severe and quite time-consuming to fix.
> 
> In any case, peres doesn't have enough time to work on these bugs, so in my opinion
> it would be best to release ScummVM in the regular release cycle (i.e. every 6 months),
> so that more people can test it and play around with it. Therefore I'm all for releasing
> a stable release now, mentioning the known regressions, and hopefully have them fixed
> in the next stable release.
> 
> Out of curiosity: if we know the commits that broke Nippon Safes and introduced these
> regressions, can't we #ifdef the offending code for the stable release, and put the old
> working code in? (at least I think this is doable for the sound loop regression in the
> Amiga version, since that's a 1-line change).

Sure, "we" can do all of that, it's what is called "bug fixing" ;-). Are you volunteering then?


Cheers,
Max



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