One question that keeps popping up: "when do we release 2.0?".
NewGRF will force that at least 1.16 will be 2.0, but to not wait
for this, let's drop the "1." and be for ever done with that
conversation.
We are following in the footstep of giants here.
CMake works on all our supported platforms, like MSVC, Mingw, GCC,
Clang, and many more. It allows for a single way of doing things,
so no longer we need shell scripts and vbs scripts to work on all
our supported platforms.
Additionally, CMake allows to generate project files for like MSVC,
KDevelop, etc.
This heavily reduces the lines of code we need to support multiple
platforms from a project perspective.
Addtiionally, this heavily improves our detection of libraries, etc.
In 10 years there is no commit to change how MorphOS works, and we
have no active maintainer for it. It is unlikely it works in its
current state (but not impossible).
With the arrival of SDL2 (and removal of SDL), MorphOS is no longer
support. There is an SDL2 port for MorphOS, but it is not maintained
by upstream SDL2, and nobody can currently test it out.
If anyone wants to re-add MorphOS, please do (revert this patch,
fix the problems, and create a Pull Request). If you need any help
doing so, let us know! It is not that we don't like MorphOS, it is
that we don't have anyone fixing the problems :(
This is necessary to be compatible with some Game Scripts that might trigger compatibility modes if the SVN revision part is wrong. Potentially some NewGRFs might also be affected.
See for example [SuperLib's Helper class](https://dev.openttdcoop.org/projects/superlib/repository/entry/helper.nut#L280), containing this function:
function _SuperLib_Helper::HasWorldGenBug()
{
local version = _SuperLib_Helper.GetOpenTTDVersion();
if (version.Major == 0 || (version.Major == 1 && version.Minor <= 3)) {
return version.Revision < 25339;
} else {
return version.Revision < 25305;
}
}
If this function sees a Revision value of zero, it might trigger a workaround not required, causing a regression in scripts dependent on this. The MinimalGS example, for one, will trigger this.
Patric Stout