[Scummvm-devel] Avoiding loading of all plugins during startup

[Max Horn]

Am 23.06.2010 um 14:54 schrieb Angus Lees:

> I understand if it is considered out of scope for this GSoC project,
> but I would be very happy to see the detection code separated from the
> engines.

It's not just out of scope -- I also think it may not work well in general, and described why so for the SCI engine :).


> For the Android port, I have the engine plugins all split out into
> separate optional packages since having all of them at once is much
> too big for a typical Android app.

In what way is it "too big" ? Does the Android store impose limitations on the binary size or what?

>  At the moment, users have to
> install the right engine "plugin" packages themselves - and it would
> be great if I could instead suggest which ones were needed
> automatically.

It would be even greater if all engine plugins were always installed... *g*. 


BTW, Gus, I am still awaiting replies to my mails from June 16 and June 8 :-).

Bye,
Max