Re: [AD] Allegro 4.4, Yosemite, and Quartz 2D

[Tobias Hansen <thansen@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I had already planned to do the work that's required to get the next
release out. After that, let's see. However, I cannot test stuff on
anything else than Linux.

Am 08.08.2014 20:09, schrieb beoran@xxxxxxxxxx:
> Tobias, to be blunt with you, I'd love to see someone like you take
> over Allegro 4.4 maintenance. David is not the only one who still uses
> Allegro 4, and although I'd rather people upgrade to Allegro 5, I
> understand that it's not always something that can be done immediately
> for existing projects. We could definitely use people like you to do
> more regular maintenace on the 4.4 branch...
> 
> Kind Regards,
> 
> Bjorn.
> 
> On 8/8/14, Tobias Hansen <thansen@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Hi David,
>>
>> do you already have a time frame in mind for that? My plan until now was
>> to push for an Allegro 4 release with resizing and get aseprite with
>> resizing uploaded before the Debian testing freeze on November 5. If you
>> change to another library soon, I don't have to worry about patching
>> Allegro, otherwise my plan would not change.
>>
>> Best,
>> Tobias
>>
>> On 08/08/2014 07:10 PM, David Capello wrote:
>>> As I already have plans to migrated to another library
>>> (I've made a lot of refactors through these years to do
>>> that), I think that my best option now is to finish the
>>> migration, and say good bye to Allegro 4.
>>>
>>> Thanks anyway people
>>> - David
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 1:35 PM, <beoran@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I'm beating a dead horse here, but I'd say it's about time to migrate
>>>> your project to Allegro 5.
>>>>
>>>> We're already somewhat shorthanded in maintaining and developing
>>>> Allegro 5. So we really lack the manpower lack to keep maintaining
>>>> Allegro 4.4, unless someone takes up the gauntlet and becomes the
>>>> maintainer of that branch.
>>>>
>>>> Kind Regards,
>>>>
>>>> B.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 8/8/14, Peter Hull <peterhull90@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>> On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 4:46 PM, David Capello <davidcapello@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>> It looks like Apple is removing QuickDraw framework in the next
>>>>>> version
>>>>>> of Mac OS X, Yosemite.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Someone here know if there is a fork of Allegro 4.4 with Quartz 2D
>>>>>> instead of QuickDraw.
>>>>>
>>>>> None that I know.
>>>>> I remember being worried about the demise of QuickDraw back in
>>>>> 2006(ish) - can't believe it's hung on this long! At the time I did
>>>>> look into using OpenGL (glDrawPixels) but there was some reason why it
>>>>> wasn't feasible.
>>>>>
>>>>> Pete
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>
>>