[Scummvm-devel] testbed detection

[Max Horn]

Am 16.09.2010 um 23:44 schrieb Eugene Sandulenko:

> On Thu, 16 Sep 2010 13:15:51 +0200
> Max Horn <max at quendi.de> wrote:
>>> Would it make sense to keep the testbed engine disabled with
>>> --enable-all-engines, and require an explicit --enable-testbed?
>> 
>> I'd rather have the detection "fixed". If a backend has troubles with
>> the detection, then this clearly means the backend author should
>> first fix this severe bug, before moving on to test for further bugs.
> Well, this in fact not a bug but a feature, requested by me during the
> development.
> 
> What I wanted is to have ability to run the test without the engine
> data which are used for FS tests.

OK... but why? To what end?


> 
> But I think that the right solution would be to override detectGames(),
> but leave detectGame(), which could solve the issue (former is used at
> detection stage and latter is used when you actually launch the game).
> I need more testing on this.

Well, that could of course be done, but it would be interesting to learn the logic behind that :)

Bye,
Max