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- To: Coordination of admins/developers of the game programming libraryAllegro <alleg-developers@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Subject: Re: [AD] Hotplug joysticks
- From: Trent Gamblin <trent@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2010 11:19:48 -0600
On 2010-08-18, at 11:14 AM, Evert Glebbeek <eglebbk@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> To me, it seems that this change would not cause existing code to behave differently under the same circumstances (ie, you don't plug in or unplug a joystick). Based on that, I think it's fine to push this off to 5.1.
> Please correct me if I'm wrong.
That's partially true. The problem is if users start calling al_get_num_josticks willy nilly their program could break with 5.1.