[SDL] SDL 1.3!

[Mason Wheeler]

>----- Original Message ----

>From: Pierre Phaneuf <pphaneuf at gmail.com>
>Subject: Re: [SDL] SDL 1.3!
>
>On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 6:23 PM,  <zoltan at bendor.com.au> wrote:
>
>> Absolutely agree. It's a major deviation from the old API, not just in
>> terms of function prototypes but also in concepts (multiple windows, for
>> example). While 1.2 and 1.3 both cater for the same sort of needs, they
>> are rather different animals. You can't just install 1.3, change a few
>> ints to unsigned or long in your code, recompile and run. That's what I'd
>> expect from an x.a -> x.b change; bugfixes, a couple of new features, but
>> nothing seriously breaking backward compatibility.
>
>Well, you might be able to do just that with some programs, using
>SDL_compat.h! :-)


Even so, with some of the changes to the SDL_Surface struct, and the
definition of SDL_Rect, a lot of old code just won't work unmodified.