[AD] 4.3.10plus report

[Milan Mimica <milan.mimica@xxxxxxxxxx>]

It has been a rough month for allegro 4.3.10plus branch and since there 
 wasn't any official TODO or a plan and commit messages are hard to 
follow, I'm reporting now what I've done there.

I've done everything I planned to do.

ADDONS

   There are 4 addons currently there: AllegroGL, loadpng, jpgalleg and 
logg. From Allegro side, adding addons is fairly easy. Just mention them 
in a few places in makefiles and document them in docs/src/addons._tx. 
From addons' side it can be a bit complicated because their build 
system must be instructed to find allegro libs and headers two dirs 
above. Next, it has to follow Allegro's build options like DEBUGMODE, 
STATICLINK, ALLEGRO_USE_CYGWIN and what not... It resulted in extensive 
modification of build systems which will eventually make the process of 
updating an addon lib to a never version, a somewhat complicated adventure.
   Configuring, building and installing addons is fairly easy. On unix, 
configure script checks for all the required deps and enables the addon. 
It can be disabled explicitly. On non-unix systems the one has to set 
ALLEGRO_ADDON_NAME env. variable prior to running make.

Open issues (I don't intend to fix):
- On unix, "make uninstall" will completely remove addons, while it 
leaves allegro's shared-libs. I.e. there is no uninstall-shared target 
for addons.
- On unix, you need to run AllegroGL's configure script manually if you 
want to pass it any non-default options.


DEMO GAMES

   I added a new demo game, Skater. The old demo was renamed to Shooter 
and everything has moved to the "demos" dir.
   The Skater demo can be built with AllegroGL support. On unix, if 
AllegrGL addon is enabled, two versions of Skater are built: skater and 
skater_agl binaries. On other systems, just one version is built, 
depending on AllegroGL addon being built.

Open Issues (I don't intend to fix):
- Skater doesn't have an icon. :)


OTHER THINGS

   Added a new function draw_sprite_ex(), see the docs if you don't 
know what it does.
   On all systems, everything is built as if ALLEGRO_USE_C was defined. 
ASM version is not supported any more. This broke watcom build, probably.
   All the fixes from 4.2 branch have been ported, I hope.

Open issues (I don't intend to fix):
- The zipup.sh script won't distclean addons. It is because it doesn't 
actually call "make distclean", but it parses makefile.lst... Should be 
fine if you call "make distclean" yourself or, even better, use a fresh 
SVN chouck out.
- MSVC project files - missing, broken, both, I don't know.
- Should dump AGL's version number to 0.4.4. OK that's easy (even though 
I have to do it manually on like 10 places because there is no fixver.sh 
script for this and I don't know perl, regex or whatever is needed).
- Everything should be tested. I did test it on linux, msvc, mingw and 
djgpp, but still.
- There were some more, but I can't remember now.


So is there something else? Can it be released? When? How?


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Milan Mimica
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