[Scummvm-devel] MT-32 emulator progress

[Jerome Fisher]

Hi Johannes,

On 31/03/11 00:20, Johannes Schickel wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 11:14 PM, Jerome Fisher
> <ml_scummvm-devel_sourceforge.net at kingguppy.com>  wrote:
>> I'm happy to update the integrated version of the emulator, though I
>> would prefer to remove that and instead detect and link with the
>> official static link library we produce. I believe I raised this
>> possibility on the scummvm-devel ml years ago and it was rejected,
>> though - let me know if there's a change of heart.
>>
>
> I am personally still for a in source copy of the emulator (probably
> contributed via a patch / pull request on github). It being an
> external library makes it rather annoying to build ScummVM, till Linux
> distributions pick it up (if they will at all) and it's prebuilt etc.
> Also we might slightly adapt it to our file i/o etc. more easily.

It's designed so that you don't need to adapt it, even if it's directly 
embedded (which is obviously not the preferred method, but I won't argue 
the point). If it does need to be adapted in some way then we'd 
appreciate knowing about it, because that's probably an area where we 
can improve flexibility for other embedders.

Unfortunately nobody has ever upstreamed any ScummVM changes to Munt. It 
used to be that I was maintaining the ScummVM-integrated version so none 
of this really mattered, but I get the impression that I'm not wanted in 
this capacity. So I'd really like to encourage you to make the 
integrated version as similar to Munt as possible (and I'm happy to 
assist) so that I can periodically check for changes and merge them in 
easily.

Regards,
Jerome