[SDL] SDL_keysym.unicode

Brian brian.ripoff at gmail.com
Thu Feb 21 04:30:45 PST 2008


I think its a good idea to leave it out. After all, I thought the
whole point of 1.3 was to change some of the interfaces SDL exposes,
in doing so breaking binary compatibility for the greater good.

On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 11:37 PM, Bob Pendleton <bob at pendleton.com> wrote:
> Leaving it in lets a lot of old program compile but doesn't let them run. If
> an SDL 1.2 program compiles without errors under 1.3 I believe it should
> *run* under 1.3. I would much rather find that a program does not compile
> than have to try to figure out why it no longer runs. I also don't think
> that having SDL 1.3 send an error message to stderr or stdout is enough to
> tell the programmer what is wrong. How many Windows programmers are likely
> to see that output?
>
> Bob Pendleton


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