[Scummvm-devel] Broken Sword 2.5

[David Weinehall]

On Sun, Aug 01, 2010 at 09:03:26AM +1000, Paul Gilbert wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 1, 2010 at 8:57 AM, Max Horn <max at quendi.de> wrote:
> 
> >
> > Am 01.08.2010 um 00:43 schrieb Paul Gilbert:
> >
> > >> Do we plan to have the Lua sources in ScummVM for that too, or will we
> > >> use an external LUA reference for that?
> > >>
> > >
> > > Since Residual is the only other game I'm aware of with a similiar Lua
> > > implementation, it'll probably stay within the Broken sword 2.5 engine.
> > > Although if other games in the future also make use of it, who knows. :)
> >
> > That doesn't answer the question, though...
> >
> 
> I think I don't entirely understand the question. To be more verbose,
> though, the lua implementation in Broken Sword 2.5 is done using an add-on
> package written in C, so it's not part of the 'core' engine. From the point
> of view of the engine, I can't imagine it would matter much whether we make
> it a separate 'required' package for compiling ScummVM, or include it
> directly as part of the ScummVM package.

Most (all?) distributions frown upon inclusion of local copies of
libraries, mainly because it duplicates code and increases the risk of
missing things when doing security fixes.

[snip]


Regards: David
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