[Scummvm-devel] Release 1.3.0 status - 2011-05-16

Filippos Karapetis bluegr at gmail.com
Wed Jun 29 11:07:42 CEST 2011


On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 11:48 AM, Frantisek Dufka <dufkaf at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 29.6.2011 10:13, Filippos Karapetis wrote:
>>
>> Um, excuse me, I understand your anger
>
> There is no anger.

Good :)

>> got for this port is in form of a patch against 1.1.0 in
>> /backends/platform/maemo.
>
> False again. Every release of scummvm source has separate patch included.
> Also every tagged release in svn had this patch too in
> backends/platform/maemo , 1.2.1 is the last one as I missed 1.3.0 deadline

No, this is not the way to do it. We need your changes in our trunk,
plain and simple

> It is only the trunk that has no patch because it makes no sense. It would
> be outdated and broken with any major change done in trunk. How often am I
> supposed to update it?

Preferably on every stable release, i.e. every 6 months, like with all
the other ports (but if you want to update it sooner than that, you're
free to do so, of course :P )

>> It seems that we could automate its build process with buildbot too,
>> right? What kind of toolchain is required for this port?
>
> see scratchbox.org, Maemo has no supported cross-compiler in the normal
> sense. It could work in theory but it is not done this way. Maemo
> autobuilder installs whole scratchbox virtual environment (like chroot but
> not exactly chroot, there is some additional magic) from scratch, then pulls
> and install all source dependencies and then builds the package and throws
> everything out.

Right, OK, thanks for clearing this out!

>> You are supposed to be subscribed to scummvm-devel, so why should you be
>> specifically CCed here?
>
> Because that would be nice and polite thing to do? Especially when starting
> uninformed flamewar ;-)

Er, it's not a flamewar, or an uninformed flamewar. You specifically
don't add your changes to our tree, which is where this whole debate
started from. If you are part of the team, and if you want your port
to be considered official, you really should subscribe and watch the
scummvm-devel mailing list.

> BTW, I am subscribed to scummvm-devel. I just don't read it every day. For
> any Maemo related stuff it is better to CC me. I guess it is same for any
> other porter who is not core developer.

Not quite, again, you are supposed to read the mailing list, we really
don't know what change affects your port and what doesn't. We can't
guess when to contact each and every developer, which is why there is
a mailing list for that, which developers and porters should read
themselves (e.g. there have been specific messages to all porters to
the mailing list in the past, you included).

Regards
Filippos

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