Re: [AD] disable linux console port by default?

[Serge Semashko <serge@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Peter Wang wrote:

> A recent message on [AL] reminded me of an idea.  We have gotten quite a
> few reports from people over the years who've built Allegro without X11
> support by accident due to missing X development libraries.  I wonder if
> it's time for us to just disable the linux console port by default now.
> There aren't really any good graphics backends left with drivers for
> modern cards, limiting the usefulness of the port.  Unless someone knows
> what they're doing, they probably only care about X.

I only hope you are not going to completely drop support for framebuffer
console. Some of our users find it useful for playing the game on
systems without X server installed (old laptop with small HDD for
example).

Anyway, old versions of allegro can be used in this case unless you have
plans for changing API :)

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Serge Semashko
ufo2000 development team
http://ufo2000.sourceforge.net