[Scummvm-devel] Broken Sword 2.5 engine

Max Horn max at quendi.de
Wed Oct 13 22:41:12 CEST 2010


Am 13.10.2010 um 15:09 schrieb Eugene Sandulenko:

> On 13 October 2010 14:07, Max Horn <max at quendi.de> wrote:
>> Some remarks:
>> 
>> 1) Communication on this engine was not too good, at least as I remember experiencing it -- but maybe I missed something? As I recall it, a discussion on whether to merge it was started in August, some concerns were voiced, but never addressed. Then the discussion died away, silence. Then suddenly it hits trunk.
>> In retrospect, it seems the "should we merge this?" discussion was not very serious :/. And I am quite unhappy that we now have a full copy of LUA sitting in our repository, despite explicit concerns about it.
> Actually my questions went unanswered. See my mail from August 1st in
> the "Broken Sword 2.5" thread and from September 19th "Broken Sword
> 2.5 engine is ready to be merged" where I raise specifically those
> questions. Unfortunately they went unanswered.

Indeeed, that was then what I missed :/. *sigh*

Sorry! Today I seem to misread, misremember and in general "mis(s)" a lot :/.

> Again, Lua could potetnially be put outside of the tree, it is not a
> problem, though we have to lock to that specific version because of
> Pluto, persistency library.

Aha. And I guess that lib is not directly "standard" either... Well then, I assume for now it is the easiest to keep this. I wonder if this "pluto" thing can be replaced with something more standard / more compatible with current Lua versions in the future?

> 
>> 2) This engine is currently not being tested by buildbot, as neither libpng nor libtheora are installed for most of the cross compilers. I hope that it will be easy to install them at least for the Debian port; in any case, it would be great if "somebody" (resp. each maintainer) could take care of installing these libs, at least for ports where it might make sense.
> And that is known issue.

Good. That was not clear to me, as an outsider :).

Anyway, I just wanted to raise attention to this, apparently that worked :).


Bye,
Max



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