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@@ -1,8 +1,5 @@ General ======= -* Add plugin system (both dynamic & static plugin support) - [if you want to work on it, ask Fingolfin about this, he already has done - some planning. Also make sure that your system support 'static' plugins, too] * Revise the way "quit" is handled. Maybe add a global variable "g_quit" which we set when the application should be quit (e.g. when an EVENT_QUIT is received). This is useful if multiple levels of event loops have to be ended @@ -16,12 +13,6 @@ General some kind of main loop, which, besides many other things, also polls and dispatches events. The idea is to turn this around: the event loop frequently gives the engine time to do these "other things". -* Remove "detectname" from GameSettings struct. On the long run, "midi" and/or - "features" might be removed, too. -* Enhance the Makefile-based build system to support VPATH and stuff, so that - one can compile scummvm in a directory tree separate from the source tree. - That would make it possible to build ScummVM with different build options, - e.g. have one debug build and one optimized build. * Add a FilesystemManager or FileManager or so which should unify and/or replace the current File/FilesystemNode classes (and maybe SaveFileManager). The goal is to make these things as portable as possible while keeping it @@ -37,7 +28,6 @@ General of the subdirs). Better would be to introduce a somewhat higher level API, a replacement for File::open() which (optionally) takes a list of subdirs. E.g. for Scumm, only certain files are to be expected in the VIDEO subdir). -* Add test(s) for backend usability in the configure script. * Use RandomSource for all random numbers. Right now there are a few places where we don't: - INSANE uses rand() in numerous places @@ -45,6 +35,29 @@ General - backends/midi/adlib.cpp has its own random_nr() function. Any others? +Build System +============ +* Add test(s) for backend usability in the configure script. +* Enhance the Makefile-based build system to support VPATH and stuff, so that + one can compile scummvm in a directory tree separate from the source tree. + That would make it possible to build ScummVM with different build options, + e.g. have one debug build and one optimized build. + Fingolfin implemented most of this; the only thing missing is that configure + should detect when it is run in a directory outside the source tree, and in + that case generate a custom Makefile, with content like this: + srcdir = /path/to/source/dir + vpath %.cpp $(srcdir) + vpath %.h $(srcdir) + include $(srcdir)/Makefile +* Add support in the configure script to choose between building ScummVM + with plugins or normal (see also comment in Makefile.common). +* It would be nice to get rid of Makefile.noconf (so that we can implement + certain improvements which aren't possible as long as we have to maintain + that). To this end, find out + 1) Which platforms/systems require Makefile.noconf? + 2) What stops them from using 'configure' ? Document this! + 3) If possible fix all the issue listed in 2) + Documentation ============= * Update/enhance man page @@ -106,12 +119,11 @@ GUI Game Detector ============= -* Make use of MD5 sums for improved game detection - -> in particular, a detector should be allowed to return detected - values for language and platform * Improve the detector for games with all datafiles in subdirs (i.e. Broken Sword 1 & 2). This could work by letting the detector proc recurse into sub directories... +* Remove "detectname" from GameSettings struct. On the long run, "midi" and/or + "features" might be removed, too. Audio ===== @@ -125,8 +137,8 @@ Audio the code, and it also makes it possible to apply sound rate conversion to premixers, which makes it easier to write and maintain a premixer proc. -Config -====== +Config Manager +============== * Preserve comments in config file somehow * Add a 'notification' system. E.g. the SoundMixer could request to be notified whenever the value of the "volume" config option changes. In other words, |