Re: [AD] enum moved to internal header

[Thomas Fjellstrom <tfjellstrom@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On May 5, 2010, Trent Gamblin wrote:
> On Wed, May 5, 2010 8:45 pm, Peter Wang said:
> > [trent sent the reply to me only]
> 
> Apologies.
> 
> > Yeah, ok, OpenAL is decent example.  What do you think of the
> > al_get_system_config() approach?  It's not really consistent with
> > the graphics subsystem but it's already there.
> 
> It's not pretty but I it gets the job done. But the argument that
> a user might use a platform specific driver in a call to al_install_audio
> doesn't sound like a problem to me, because if it's a binary
> distribution, then it's either going to be the right choice or it's
> not going to work even on the platform intended (and so how well
> made could the game be if the developer makes such a decision?),
> or you're going to have source code so you can simply change a
> line in the source and if they didn't use an specific API calls it's
> going to work anyway (and if they did, then they either had a good
> reason to hard code the driver or we're back at the incompetent
> developer scenario). I personally like having all the choices left up
> to me, so that I can do what I think is right on each platform, which
> could mean one platform gets extra features (I'm thinking of OpenGL
> ES 2.0 vs 1.1 on iPhone where I will use shaders for some extra
> fancy effects) but other platforms don't lose anything.

I can see both sides points. Peter's concern is a valid one. Too many people 
hard code things like display driver for no reason other than they don't 
know they want AUTODETECT (and assume since they only know windows, the 
DirectX driver must be fine).

But limiting options is a valid concern also.

> Trent :{)>
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Thomas Fjellstrom
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