[Scummvm-devel] engine names

[Arnaud Boutonné]

The wiki helps for sure.
Maybe we could use the compatibility page to link the games on the website
to the wiki? Or add information on the compatibility list directly, maybe?

Arnaud



On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 3:09 PM, Thierry Crozat <criezy at scummvm.org> wrote:

> Le 18 nov. 2011 à 12:18, Willem Jan Palenstijn a écrit :
>
>
> With a couple of new single-game engines approaching completeness, I'd
> like to
> poll what you think about their engine names. Specifically, is there any
> good
> reason why CGE isn't called Soltys, and why Picture isn't called Toltecs?
>
> The consistency argument really doesn't hold IMO, since all our existing
> single-game engines have a name strongly based on the game name (Cruise,
> Draci,
> Drascula, Dreamweb, Lastexpress, Lure, Queen, Sky, Sword1, Sword2, Sword25,
> Teenagent, Toon, Touche, Tucker). Only the multi-game engines have more
> general names.
>
> In short, I'd propose renaming Picture to Toltecs (pre-merge), and if it's
> not
> considered too much of a hassle, CGE (back) to Soltys (before announcing
> support).
>
>
> For those who weren't around (or forgot about it), there was a similar
> discussion in May, most of which can be found here:
>
> https://github.com/scummvm/scummvm/commit/3c59e37035742ce843f3e12039b5169e4bdd0168#commitcomment-384680
>
> Personally I don't have a strong opinion on how the engines should be
> named, although I would tend to go with the real engine name when it is
> known. But I would like to stress that I think it is important to have the
> same engine name everywhere (to avoid further confusion), and this includes
> the wiki, the credits, the MetaEngine and the directory name in
> scummvm/engines/.
>
> For the question raised about game <-> engine mapping (e.g. 'I'm looking
> for game X, what supports it?'), isn't the wiki good enough (e.g. if you go
> to the list of games and then go to the game page you have the engine name
> here).
> One problem is that currently there is no list of supported game in there
> other that the datafile page which doesn't link to the game pages.
> http://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php/Category:Unsupported_Games has a lot of
> games but http://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php/Category:Supported_Games only
> has one game :O. I will start populating this category but help is welcome.
> After that we can add a link to this page from the menu on the right.
>
> Thierry
>
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