[Scummvm-devel] Fwd: Found cause for translation problem

Johannes Schickel lordhoto at scummvm.org
Tue Jun 21 17:14:39 CEST 2011


> > If somebody can demonstrat problems on a real system that are caused
> > by embedding data files into the .exe, then we can discuss how to deal
> > with them.
> 
> I hope with real system you don't mean up-to-date system but real computer.
> Unfortunately, I don't have a real 486 computer around, but I could rather
> quickly set up a Win 95 Virtual Machine. Would that count too? :)
> 
> Anyway, I don't like if all these - for me useless - data is being built in
> my binary when compiling myself. It is not only a waste of space but also
> a waste of compiling time and thus life time for me since I prefer using
> external files. Of course I could just go to
> backends/platform/sdl/win32/win32.cpp and remove the line
> s.add("Win32Res", new Win32ResourceArchive(), priority); (thanks to wjp
> for the hint), but that is quite a dirty hack and also takes quite an
> amount of lifetime if I have to do this with every source bundle I
> download. It would be rather easier for me if I just go to the configure
> and disable the corresponding list entry (for example: incapacitation=no
> :) ).
> 
> So please, add at least such an on/off switch to the configure (turned on
> by default) and I think everybody of us might be happy.
> 

If you really want that feature, please submit a patch on our patch tracker. 
Then we could think of including it. Personally I see no real point in doing 
so, but I am not strongly against including this. So if other devs think it's 
useful then we can accept it.

// Johannes




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