[SDL] SDL 1.3!

[Jacob Meuser]

On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 03:33:55PM -0700, Mason Wheeler wrote:
> 
> >----- 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.

I'm the current maintainer of SDL for OpenBSD's ports/packages system.
out of curiousity, I installed an SDL-1.3 snapshot and then tried to
build a few other applications that use SDL.  the majority didn't
build.  some were not trivial to fix.  considering there are about 60
applications that use SDL in OpenBSD's ports tree, I just gave up.
many of these applications are old games that have not seen active
development in years.  as such, it's likely that it will fall on me,
as the SDL maintainer, to make these work with a new version of SDL.
or more likely, I won't update SDL, or will have to maintain two
versions of SDL and make sure they don't conflict, which I'm not
really looking forward to.

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