RE: [AD] Request: adding textout_ex(), which takes bg color as parameter

["Vincent Penquerc'h" <Vincent.Penquerch@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Title: RE: [AD] Request: adding textout_ex(), which takes bg color as parameter

> What does the _ex stand for, and what exactly is the reason to name
> the new functions *_ex and make the 'short' versions deprecated? I'd
> prefer to see it the other way around, although I can see some
> confusion if the functionality of a function changes.

extension/extended
I guess it's for people who upgrade to not have their code crash.
If they code in C, the recompile would do fine (unless -Wall) but
would crash (or behave wrongly) due to not pushing the parameter
the routines expects. So a new name has to be found for the new
routines, unfortunately.
A different way to solve this would be to allow the al_ prefix
for new functions. But I doubt people will allow this. Weren't
we supposed to al_ everything for 4.1 by the way ? Or only for
5.0 ?

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Vincent Penquerc'h