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On Wed, 2010-01-20 at 14:05 +1100, Peter Wang wrote:
> So, activity on 4.9 been a bit low for a few months. Probably everyone
> has more interesting things to do. Perhaps the library is in pretty
> good shape. I have been wondering if we should seriously consider
> making a 5.0 release soon, i.e. in a few months.
>
> *If* we were to do that, what changes would be critical to you?
> What features would you be happy to put off? Note that Allegro 5.2
> doesn't have to be a long time in coming, but nor is it guaranteed that
> 5.2 would ever come out.
>
> I'll start.
>
> - al_get_errno/al_set_errno are not used consistently yet. I suggest
> hiding them as private functions until the work is completed.
>
> - The custom memory management functions are also not used consistently,
> and may be put off for later.
>
END_OF_MAIN would be the most pressing issue for me. But then I've put
off booting into Windows and copying over the SDL way of dealing with
main() for probably years by now :P
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