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> i can't believe they did that. the only reason i'd see to do that is to
> force people to upgrade every time a new version is out.
It's probably the main goal.
> ok then. having to maintain two versions of allegro (one with a base
> functionality and the other requiring a newer version of dx) seems to be
> too much trouble, so this idea should probably be dropped ...
Note that I didn't do any test, so backwards compatibility at compile time
may be quietly supported tough.
> i would expect everything to evolve this way, including data structures,
> or this means
> that older interfaces are unusable, and they might as well dump them to
> save space and maintainance time.
The old interfaces are there in order to maintain runtime backwards
compatibility: a DirectX 1 program can still retrieve its DirectX 1
interface from the DirectX 8 runtime libs.
The question is whether a DirectX 8 program can retrieve the DirectX 1
interface from the DirectX 1 runtime libs and properly use it.
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Eric Botcazou
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