scummvm/scummvm — comment on commit 65c60ef02737f9e6a7e4091b622a6a1e0871d6d7
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By fingolfin:

Hi,

I can't see the comment below on github, nor my own comment that started the discussion; and indeed, I don't want to be dragged into yet another ScummVM yell fest, so I'll let you guys sort this out. But there is one thing I badly feel I need to reply that. After that, I'll leave it up to you to sort out how you want to run the project:

Am 28.02.2012 um 22:18 schrieb Alyssa Milburn:

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> I explained that I thought some of the aim of this was to avoid polluting the global namespace, and so simply removing singleid was a bad idea. If that isn't the case, and we can simply remove singleid from engines as we wish, then obviously that simplifies things. But I don't think it's fair to act surprised at confusion over this completely undocumented and annoying "feature".

I don't act surprised at the confusion; indeed, it was me who added the original TODO comment asking for an explanation of "singleid".

But I *am* surprised that people who are confused by this and don't understand what is going on simply go ahead and write documentation, calling a feature "evil", when they apparently have not first undertaken the most basic steps to discover the whys and hows behind the feature; namely, ask people in the knows. Foremost among those Eugene, who added singleid in the first place IIRC, and who certainly would have been willing to explain it.

At least 2 hours ago, when I made my initial comment, there was no trace of such a discussion on -devel, and judging by Eugene's reaction, he has not been asked about this either. So, it seems that communication in ScummVM is still somewhat "broken" :-(

Bye,
Max