Re: ScummC 0.2.0 and OpenQuest 0.1.0 are out !!!

On Sun, 13 Apr 2008 14:33:46 -0700
"G33K" <g99999k <at> fastmail.net> wrote:

> If it's okay with you, I'd also like to suggest a few additional edits
> to the site. I don't want to be smart-alecky here, just think we could
> draw even more attention to the new release on the ScummC website
> itself. Here are some suggestions:
> 
> 
> 1. The main page doesn't seem to have any info about the new release.
> I think the "current status" section could mention the release with a
> date, to get people to click the "releases" link.

Sound good.

> 2. The screenshot page could feature an OpenQuest shot, with a link to
> the download section. I attached a png screenshot.

I'll upload it and add it to the screenshot section. Perhaps I should
also use it on freshmeat.

> 3. The releases page should maybe have more info for non-developers
> about OpenQuest. We should mention that it's a game, and that it can
> be played out-of-the-box in ScummVM. Otherwise, non-developers might
> not understand the download and thus won't get a chance to spread the
> word.

Yep.

> 4. Since there are so many Windows developers in the homebrew
> adventure community, a lot of people will probably download the
> Windows binaries. We sould maybe warn them that it's not a foolproof
> point-and-click installation. Apart from mentioning dependencies to
> GTK+ and FreeType, it could say that some sort of UNIX environment is
> needed to run the makefiles for compiling the games. (I also recall
> that the makefiles didn't work with CygWin at one point?)

Dunno about cygwin, but on mingw they are definitely broken. IIRC on
mingw make choke on targets containing slashes :( For scummc itself it
mean a complete overhaul of the build system, so that's currently out
of question. For the games I suppose we can provide an additional
Makefile for mingw if we really can't get the current one to work.

The problem is more that I have no easy access to a win32 box and not
much interest in it. I always hoped some mingw users would take the
matter in their hands.

> If you upload the screenshot, I can make the textual changes to the
> Wiki, only with your consent, of course.

No problem, improvements are always welcome and I happily let the PR
stuff to more qualified ppl :)

	Albeu