Re: [AD] Screen update API again

[Peter Wang <tjaden@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Evert Glebbeek wrote:

> On Friday 20 August 2004 10:04, Peter Wang wrote:
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> > Whether it *should* be included, I dunno.  It depends on how many people 
> > want something like that, and why it can't just be an addon.
> >    
>
> Well, I think a lot of people actually write wrappers like that, so I think 
> there's a real interest in them. I'd normally say to make it an addon too, 
> but in this case I think it has a place in Allegro itself.
>  

Yeah.

> What would be against it being included now, IMO, is that a similar system 
> would be part of a new graphics API, if I remember what was discussed for 
> Allegro 5 correctly. We could be including it now and depricating it again 
> relatively soon. On the other hand, the new graphics API could take a 
> while yet.
>  

It *will* take a while, if it ever gets done.  So if the screen update 
API is really important then it should just go in, otherwise it could 
get delayed indefinitely (like some other features which I won't mention).

> > Maybe we should pull out the "official" or "common" addons idea out 
> > again.  A bunch of addons lumped into a single build process, and hosted 
> > on the Allegro website (but not necessarily maintained by core Allegro 
> > developers, though -- maybe some Allegro.cc regulars could be recruited).
> >    
>
> Can't hurt. This could start small by just linking to some common addons 
> from Allegro's download page.
> Maintaining a common build process for all of them may be too much work... 
> (daydreaming) although it'd be nice to have a build process that can build 
> Allegro, detect common addons and build them as well...
>  

Well, it can require Allegro to be installed before the addons can be 
installed.  That should simplify it a bit.

Peter