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

[Johannes Schickel]

> I don't understand what's wrong with cross-compiling and having it done by
> someone new. 

For merly providing builds it might be fine that it is cross-compiled, in fact 
we even do that ourselves with buildbot, BUT when we talk about a maintainer 
for a *desktop* platform like Windows, it seems strange why he/she should 
cross-compile it, when he's using Windows anyway. In fact I only got the 
feeling your friend is rather using Linux, when you started to talk about him 
cross-compiling.

And just to be clear: The Windows maintainer should use Windows on a daily 
base, he should be familiar with the Windows API and user standards etc. He 
should have a possibility to test his builds of ScummVM on Windows 2k/XP and 
Vista/7. All that helps with a stable and usable Windows port. 

Furthermore our Windows maintainer should probably be able to handle both 
MinGW and MSVC specific problems, to assure all of our developers using either 
of these can work just fine without needing to worry about touching backend 
parts etc. And of course we should have a fast way of contacting him in case 
anything goes wrong. I think there is no need to talk about the fact that he 
should try to keep up on changes on a daily base, since it is one of our main 
platforms.

All that is IMHO though.

Anyway I have no personal feelings against your friend, so if he thinks he can 
handle all that, he should just drop a mail and get in contact with us 
himself.

// Johannes