Posted September 23, 2015
Response from Haemimont from a week ago (15.09):
"There will be an update really soon. There's a bit of delay on GOG's side because they repack everything in their installers but this week we'll release another update from the roadmap for all everyone and that's why we delayed last week's patch a few days, so everything will be included, don't worry."
"Since you asked nicely, here's a more detailed explanation :)
Publishing a build to Steam is completely automatic. We fix a bug and in the best case, after testing is complete, it takes something like five minutes for it to be uploaded and available to customers.
Publishing to GOG is manual. We upload via FTP, notify them by email, they do something on their side, and usually by the next day they tell us it's live.
Since most builds on Steam are usually followed by a hotfix update in the first 24 hours (we usually screw something up and don't notice it in testing), we don't bother pushing the first version to GOG at all - we wait for the hotfix. This means the usual delay is two working days.
Now we skipped that, because (due to work on GOG Linux) the Linux and Mac GOG builds were broken on Friday. By the time they were fixed on Monday, we decided to hold off the GOG release - because this Thursday we'll have another major update out (shhh - don't tell anyone).
Sorry about this delay - I hope in the future we'll manage to keep the usual 48h delay between the versions, or even better - that GOG will put a system for automatic build submission in place.
"
"This Thursday" was 18.09
Now how cool is that?
"There will be an update really soon. There's a bit of delay on GOG's side because they repack everything in their installers but this week we'll release another update from the roadmap for all everyone and that's why we delayed last week's patch a few days, so everything will be included, don't worry."
"Since you asked nicely, here's a more detailed explanation :)
Publishing a build to Steam is completely automatic. We fix a bug and in the best case, after testing is complete, it takes something like five minutes for it to be uploaded and available to customers.
Publishing to GOG is manual. We upload via FTP, notify them by email, they do something on their side, and usually by the next day they tell us it's live.
Since most builds on Steam are usually followed by a hotfix update in the first 24 hours (we usually screw something up and don't notice it in testing), we don't bother pushing the first version to GOG at all - we wait for the hotfix. This means the usual delay is two working days.
Now we skipped that, because (due to work on GOG Linux) the Linux and Mac GOG builds were broken on Friday. By the time they were fixed on Monday, we decided to hold off the GOG release - because this Thursday we'll have another major update out (shhh - don't tell anyone).
Sorry about this delay - I hope in the future we'll manage to keep the usual 48h delay between the versions, or even better - that GOG will put a system for automatic build submission in place.
"
"This Thursday" was 18.09
Now how cool is that?