2013-10-15, 13:32
Well i have also read in the blog comments that users are unsatisfied with the retroplayer for v14 decision. But what they just don't know or don't get - as far as garbears work seems to be - the emulators he is using are only a hackjob which works for linux and windows.
The real time consuming problem is to get a buildsystem setup which will build all those emulator cores for osx, ios, android, rbpi (not a hacked makefile but real integration into our buildsystem). That is the real showstopper from adding "retroplayer without library support" to mainline yet.
And as you might guess there are only 1 or 2 or 3 persons in our team capable of doing proper buildsystems for dependencies (the upstream devs of the emulator cores sadly are not...). So that decision was not made out of lazyness or something - it was well thought out.
The real time consuming problem is to get a buildsystem setup which will build all those emulator cores for osx, ios, android, rbpi (not a hacked makefile but real integration into our buildsystem). That is the real showstopper from adding "retroplayer without library support" to mainline yet.
And as you might guess there are only 1 or 2 or 3 persons in our team capable of doing proper buildsystems for dependencies (the upstream devs of the emulator cores sadly are not...). So that decision was not made out of lazyness or something - it was well thought out.
