[Scummvm-devel] offering official Sierra SCI patches

[D G Turner]

Martin,
  Seems like a perfectly sensible idea, especially as official patches
  and only 6MB.

  Sourceforge FRS seems a perfectly reasonable solution as well as they
  are already hosting our downloads, demos and the freeware games.

  I would suggest that you should speak to _sev or another of the Core
  Team with access to the FRS to sort this out.
Thanks,
David Turner

On 15/12/13 11:36, m_kiewitz at scummvm.org wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I had the idea to upload all the official Sierra SCI game patches to maybe 
> sourceforge (none of the interpreter or music driver related patches, only game 
> / script patches) and then directly link to those from our SCI patches wiki page.
> 
> They are currently available on sierrahelp.com, but that site has both official 
> and inofficial patches mixed together, including fan written installers. 
> Inofficial fan patches may cause issues in ScummVM (some are even blocked) and 
> are not recommended. We should already fix all of the known unofficial patch 
> issues (like speed-related bugs, scripts bugs and so on) by the ScummVM SCI 
> on-the-fly script patcher. Yesterday some of the pages on sierrahelp.com even 
> gave me a 404 error. Sierrahelp.com could also go off-line at some point in the 
> future.
> 
> In total it's only around 6 MB, SCI32 patches included.
> 
> We are already offering SCI demos via sourceforge download, because the previous 
> place went 404.
> 
> Does anyone think that this is a bad idea? If it's okay, then would sourceforge 
> be the proper choice?
> 
> Regards
>    M. Kiewitz