[Scummvm-devel] Status of the Win32 Port/NSIS Installer

[Julien]

Hi,

The discussion in the pull-request ended up with an ACK from sev, so after
waiting a few days for further comments and getting a few more small changes
made, I decided to merge it. The InnoSetup script is still in tree for
anybody that wants to use it, although it's not integrated with our
configure script. The NSIS installer in master should work reasonably well.
There is still some work needed to allow proper building from out of tree
and add full support for x64 installers. Buildbot will also need to be
updated if we decide to use the NSIS installer as the official setup.

For the 1.3.x release(s), I think we should stick with the InnoSetup
installer (it received lots of testing with daily builds). One small problem
is the tools installer: no script has been committed to the tree. We can
extract the script from the latest daily build (with
http://innounp.sourceforge.net/), but since it was never part of the project
tree and has no license, I'm not too sure about it. I'll start looking at
adding a NSIS script for the tools too, but that might not be ready for the
1.3.0 release.

Given the recent heated discussion, I think someone not involved should take
over maintainship (at least for the next version, we can revisit the issue
afterwards). I know several people have Windows build environments, so
hopefully we can find somebody to build the installers. For subsequent
releases, we should have NSIS fully integrated and anybody with a working
cross-compiler can create installers easily (or maybe just pick a build from
buildbot stable branch and declare it as RC/final).

Julien

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Matthew Hoops [mailto:clone2727 at gmail.com]
> Sent: Thursday, May 05, 2011 3:27 PM
> To: ScummVM-Dev devel
> Subject: [Scummvm-devel] Status of the Win32 Port/NSIS Installer
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I was hoping that someone involved with the NSIS pull request
> discussion would have already addressed this issue on the mailing
> list, but alas, there has been none since last week. A week has passed
> since Littleboy submitted his NSIS pull request on Github and the
> following argument with our then-Win32 maintainer, yet nothing has
> been said since about it. I'm very disappointed, to say the least.
> 
> In addition, the prior discussion regarding the NSIS on -devel did not
> really show favor toward one installer script over another. LordHoto's
> final e-mail from April 30 even went unnoticed its seems.
> 
> Now that Kirben has regrettably left the project, who is maintaining
> the Win32 port? We have a release coming up soon and we have no one
> slated to build a Win32 binary. Or at least no one has publicly been
> named the new porter. Nor has Kirben been marked in the credits as
> 'retired'.
> 
> Perhaps no one cares enough? Perhaps the real issue is that the
> ScummVM team once again has problems with communication?
> 
> -Matt
> 
>
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