[Scummvm-devel] ATTN: Declaring PalmOS port as officially dead; deadline till July 16

[Chris APERS]

Indeed, it was great to port it to PalmOS and show the way to some other developers on this platform. I simply love LucasArts games and was very pleased to work on ScummVM. Also, think that first PalmOS versions was working on a 68k based device (Sony Clié) !!! It was simply amazing.
Love you all guys!
Cheers,Chris


> Subject: Re: [Scummvm-devel] ATTN: Declaring PalmOS port as officially dead; deadline till July 16
> From: max at quendi.de
> Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2010 13:46:00 +0200
> CC: scummvm-devel at lists.sourceforge.net
> To: chrilith at hotmail.com
> 
> Hi Chris,
> 
> the PalmOS port definitely  always was a tricky task. Kudos to all the hard work you spent on it for many years! I certainly much appreciated it.
> 
> Cheers,
> Max
> 
> Am 16.06.2010 um 11:40 schrieb Chris APERS:
> 
> > Hi team,
> > 
> > Well, bad new but indeed I currently have no time to work on the PalmOS port :(
> > I must admit that PalmOS development and debugging is a real chore and prevent me to do efficient working around alignment problems in most (new) engines, also sound is a big problem hard to workaround on classic PalmOS5 devices but even on Zodiac (see BASS related bug).
> > 
> > I just hope to find time later (I'm currently involved in a book writing -- huge work) to go back to this port, in the meantime I'm open to help developers to take a step into this port.
> > 
> > Chris
> > 
> > 
> > > From: max at quendi.de
> > > Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2010 00:17:07 +0200
> > > To: scummvm-devel at lists.sourceforge.net
> > > Subject: [Scummvm-devel] ATTN: Declaring PalmOS port as officially dead;	deadline till July 16
> > > 
> > > Hello everybody,
> > > 
> > > after discussion with Eugene, I hereby officially declare the PalmOS port dead. :-(.
> > > 
> > > Here is a brief summary of the reasons: The last binary for it was for 0.11.1, released 2008-02-29, more than two years ago. Since then it has not been touched much, and is heavily out of date. In addition, PalmOS itself is effectively dead (yes, Chris told us that there are actually some new PalmOS devices being released this year, but whom are we kidding?). Finally, we don't even have instructions on how to build the PalmOS port; it seems to require commercial tools to do so. The docs Chris was hoping to write on this unfortunately never surfaced. (I am not complaining, I know how it is, there is only so much time).
> > > 
> > > It is sad, esp. since Chris spend tons of hard and good work on this port over many years. But still: Since this port has suffered sever bitrot and there are no signs that this will change, I have no hope for it at this time. Therefore, after discussing this with Eugene, we plan to
> > > 
> > > REMOVE THE PALMOS PORT from our repository sometime after July 16.
> > > 
> > > We are waiting one month with this removal to give potential volunteers time to step up and update the port to work with the latest ScummVM sources. If there are significant steps towards this goal, we are willing to postpone the removal or even cancel it.
> > > 
> > > If somebody wants to turn this into a news item on our website or a forum post requesting help, you are most welcome to do so!
> > > 
> > > Bye,
> > > Max
> > > -- 
> > > Max Horn
> > > ScummVM Project Lead
> > > http://www.scummvm.org/
> > > 
> > > 
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