SCI progress report

[Paladinlover]

Even though I am getting a little impatient for the release, I'll stick to my guns and say it again.

Take all the time you need to finish it, no one ever conqured the world using the Beta version.

Till next time stay cool

[Endroz]

SCI Studio already is fully open source and licensed under the GNU GPL (like all the software on his site). You can download the latest source code from http://www.bripro.com/.

Then the next step would be to put it on Sourceforge.net and extend the project to more developers. Particulary, we all SHOULD help Brian with his project, instead of asking him all day how's it going on. That way, it'd be completed and working before the sun lights out...    

[Nychold]

SourceForge is a great place for an organized team of people, but just turning the source code loose to dozens of programmers can actually hinder a project more than it can help it.  Imagine, if you will, 20 different programmers who've never met, all with different ideas, different coding styles, different choices in APIs, etc.  You'd have a nightmare of a code to walk through and debug.  Even with ONE person, it's a hard task to walk through as many lines of code that are already in SCI Studio 3 (I know, I've got it...Borland compiles mine at just over 2.6 MILLION lines of code, though most of that is VCL) without having small bugs and errors.  In fact, a lot of the SourceForge projects die quickly because of that fact...too many people can't agree on something, and the project suffers.    I think the way SCI Studio is now is not a bad way to go.  

[Endroz]

I agree that the way SCI Studio is now is not a bad way to go, but consider what Brian just told us. He's gonna sail toward other seas to not let people "typecast" him as the "SCI Studio guy". A wish which is more than justified by the fact that SCI is pratically a legacy engine, unless someone will be able to expand it with more recent graphic/audio formats and technologies. It is just for the fun of it, I see his point -but- if Brian would take another ten years to complete that, well I guess by that time Sierra will give out the whole SCI engine sources as freeware 'old' stuff already. And that's why I'm saying that Brian needs help.