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Jammer
Registered: Nov 2002
Posts: 1335 |
Credits for 'packer' in productions.
Me and Volcano/EXON discussed briefly this issue and agreed that credits for packing/depacking system, used in production, wouldn't be a bad idea. Akin to loader's case, it's often done by someone else than prod's coder and used in multiple releases. Among pety things like 'testing' or 'storyboard' another little position doesn't seem to be too much. What do you think? |
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Dr.j
Registered: Feb 2003
Posts: 277 |
GPZ: i dunno exactly why , i believe due to de facto , maybe (im guessing) b'coz the enormous list of packers around versus a little items of great loaders . but honestly i can't put my finger on on the reason for this state (for not crediting packers however crediting loaders) |
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Jammer
Registered: Nov 2002
Posts: 1335 |
Trimming down some credits isn't dumb either, I agree ;] I just don't buy option that loader is and packer isn't ;) |
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Hein
Registered: Apr 2004
Posts: 954 |
All your consistency are belong to another boss. Still trying, though. |
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Jammer
Registered: Nov 2002
Posts: 1335 |
Everything is relative :P Consistency is either 0 or 1 ;) |
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TheRyk
Registered: Mar 2009
Posts: 2240 |
Having met Krill a couple of times, I never took him for a statwanker/vain person. I can't and won't speak for him but I guess(!), he should be fine with people crediting him in the release.
Otherwise, pretty much what the DON'T people say. Do we want to credit a few thousand releases to MacBacon because ACME was used? Naaah.
About music: Though I see the point in the argument, game musicians of the 1980s have nothing to do with nowadays productions, I think, some easy way of finding the used tunes in the database is great. However, the "SIDs used in this release" field with HVSC paths, is much more interesting/direct/helpful than being able to evaluate stats for the question if Hubbard or JT were (ab)used more often. |
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Smasher
Registered: Feb 2003
Posts: 520 |
I'll credit my mum for creating me :) |
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Moloch
Registered: Jan 2002
Posts: 2928 |
Covered in other threads already, we don't need more credit options but less. |
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algorithm
Registered: May 2002
Posts: 705 |
Perhaps as someone may have mentioned in this thread before, to have the author give extended credits in the "production notes" section |
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Frantic
Registered: Mar 2003
Posts: 1648 |
@TheRyk: Well, in the case of assemblers, at least there is no code in the final production that comes from the author of the assembler. In the case of e.g. loaders the loader code is actually part of the release. Same thing for depacker code. So your analogy does not quite hold. Not every tool used as part of creating a production actually forms a part of the production.
Having said that I still think it makes better sense not to include loader credits either. If someone wrote a custom loader for some particular production, there is still the ordinary "code" credit for that...
Why oh why do I respond to this pointless discussion. I need professional help! :D |
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chatGPZ
Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 11384 |
yes |
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