[AD] Status update on things I'm supposed to be looking into

[Evert Glebbeek <eglebbk@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Ok, so I've been bogged down with work a bit more these past few  
weeks, so I'll just update you guys on some of the things I said I'd  
look into:
 * Renaming of functions in the audio API to bring in line with the  
rest of the lib: started, need to find a free evening to finish it.  
Hopefully next week.
 * Fixing allegro5-config on OS X, at least from CMake (the list of  
linker libraries is mangled because it doesn't do the right thing for  
frameworks): I'm stumped. I can't work out how CMake builds up its  
own linker line, which is what I want to get from it. I may need to  
do it manually, which sucks.
 * Adding '--addon foo bar baz'  switch for allegro5-config. Pending  
on the previous item, not going to be easy if I end up having to do  
that manually.
 * Drawing up a timetable. I have one on paper, somewhere. I'll try  
digging it out and posting it for comments/ideas. I remember April  
1st being shockingly close when I looked at it.

Random other things I've been meaning to look at: some minor OS X  
annoyances, mostly having to do with hardware mouse cursors not  
working in full screen mode and an alternative to the OpenAL driver.

In other news, I have a very basic proof-of-concept implementation of  
(part of) A4's API on top of A5. It doesn't aim for bug-for-bug  
compatibility and it doesn't allow direct access to bitmaps or  
anything that tries to poke at A4's internals. It obviously lacks  
palette support at the moment as well. On the plus side, some of A4's  
examples run a lot better on top of A5 than they do on top of A4.
Is this the sort of level where we want a compatibility interface to  
live (palettes are something I'll want to do womething about though)?  
Second of all, do we want it as an "official" addon? I can make it  
into one, but it requires a bit of cleanup and it's not first on the  
list of things we need for A5.

Related: do we want a port of the DIGMID driver for MIDI playback? I  
know I'd like it. Don't care too much about MIDI support otherwise.

Evert