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Deprecated doesn't mean "screwed up", but "we improved our tool basing
on experience we got while creating it". Better choice of words will
be "not recommended".
OK. After rethinking whole thing I can agree to this new-old emulation mode.
But I still think this is not the best way to use mouse/touch input IMHO.
On 23 March 2011 12:36, Evert Glebbeek <eglebbk@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 23 Mar 2011, at 6:14 , Michał Cichoń wrote:
>> This code should not be in 5.1, because this will hold migration of
>> the existing games to the most current Allegro API.
>>
>> Do you agree?
>
> I don't, partly because we just have a new API and I don't think we should be deprecating parts of it already. Did we do such a bad job with it?
> But mainly I disagree because it should be easy to develop a program on a regular computer, then port it to a touch-device. Yes, that means it won't take full advantage of it without extra code, but at least it can run.
> Having said that, I don't own or code for touch-based devices, so my personal interest in this is limited.
>
> Evert
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