Re: [hatari-devel] SDL 2.0

[Matthias Arndt <marndt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>From a user point of view, please do not rush any upgrade.
Not everyone will directly have a stable SDL 2.0 install and will
upgrade SDL for Hatari only.

I'd suggest to do a API version detection during the CMake run and allow
hatari to use both the old and new APIs.

You cannot expect every user to always upgrade all system libraries.
This is a bad habit among many open source projects where the
dsevelopers assume everyone uses Debian Testing. This is not the case,
people are using long term stable versions of their OSes.

And no, please restrain from suggesting to make a parallel install. That
leads to more trouble than helpful results.

Regards,
ssb

Am Dienstag, den 13.08.2013, 23:22 +0200 schrieb Thomas Huth: 
> Am Tue, 13 Aug 2013 23:09:38 +0200
> schrieb Nicolas Pomarède <npomarede@xxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> 
> > On 13/08/2013 22:36, Christer Solskogen wrote:
> > > SDL 2.0 is out. Just wanted to give you a heads up :-)
> > >
> > > --
> > > chs,
> > 
> > Yes, I've been following sdl mailing list in the recent months,
> > that's a great news as many things were re-written, and it should
> > have better OSX support amongst others (for the fullscreen problem we
> > had).
> > 
> > I didn't test it though, it will take time before distros add it, but 
> > it's still possible to build it locally.
> > 
> > Hopefully, there should not be too much changes in Hatari, as the use
> > of SDL is rather basic.
> 
> Well, looking at http://wiki.libsdl.org/moin.fcg/MigrationGuide it
> seems like SDL 2.0 has changed the ABI quite a bit. So there is
> certainly quite a bit to do to adapt Hatari to that new version of the
> library.
> 
>  Thomas
> 

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