Re: [AD] Proposed changes for Allegro 5 (6?)

[Bob <ohannessian@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Grzegorz Adam Hankiewicz wrote:

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> > Really, its only for completion of Allegro - it does abstracts everything 
> > else needed to make a game, so why not networks?
>
> Because network is something which really really really is not needed in
> lots of games, just take a look at allegro.cc. I understand however that
> today the trend is to move towards multiplayer(only) games, but since
> networking is really hard to do properly as well, I think it deserves
> it's own library with proper documentation, examples, etc.


Perhaps Allegro can only have basic operations, like open communication 
port, send bytes, receive bytes, close port. Anything more fancy can be 
implemented in add-ons.




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