Re: [AD] Screen update API again

[Evert Glebbeek <eglebbk@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Friday 20 August 2004 10:04, Peter Wang wrote:
> 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.
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.

> 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...
Should be doable using configure scripts on *nix, but I wouldn't know how 
to do it in Windows.
Better start small and simple, I guess...

Evert