[Scummvm-devel] Announcing public SCI testing?

[Eugene Sandulenko]

On Tue, 20 Jul 2010 00:46:45 +0300
Filippos Karapetis <bluegr at gmail.com> wrote:
> I will also have free time for this from Wednesday onwards, so I can
> assist too.
Nice.

> > Now we need to determine exact list of games for testing,
> > particularly Game/Language/Platform variants, as some things may be
> > not working.
> 
> Why? Why can't we use a list of all the PC versions of SCI0-SCI11
> games? Seems to be more useful, most "big" issues have been addresed,
> thus hopefully any bugs that come up should be easier to fix.
I just meant, that if, say, Atari2600 version of Larry 4 is not
supported, users should not even try it.

> > Also we need to come up with list of known issues which should not
> > be reported, so we will not be flooded with false alarms.
> 
> There already is such a list, in the SCI/TODO page, which is up to
> date. I insisted in maintaining it for this purpose (and to remember
> what doesn't work yet).
That is the list I study almost daily, but I meant something more high
level like "sound does not work" i.e. in a manner our compatibility
page does for other games.

> > Speaking about our bugtracker, I am in favor of adding simple "SCI
> > game" category instead of individual games, as there is not that
> > much diversity and specialization among SCI developers. Opinions?
> >
> 
> I'm against this, as the SCI engine follows a similar analogy to the
> SCUMM engine, and we have a full list of all the SCUMM games. Unless
> you want to merge all of the SCUMM games in a generalized category as
> well?
There is no way to merge or even delete any registered IDs, only
renaming works. SCUMM has over 18 distinct versions (8 SCUMM + 10 HE),
and many developers worked with some particular range, such as v6 or
v7+. I have an impression that current SCI engine is more tight, and
you have probably just 4 major versions (I could be wrong), thus I
proposed it.

Another reason is that current list is already too big, and extending
it with 20 more items would make things worse. From the other hand,
asking users to distinguish between SCI1 and SCI01 is IMHO too much.

But of course, you guys decide. I just proposed. So far opinions
differ. Please speak up.


Eugene