FS#74086 - [sdl] Consider replacing with sdl-compat

Attached to Project: Community Packages
Opened by Emil (xexaxo) - Thursday, 10 March 2022, 16:46 GMT
Last edited by Antonio Rojas (arojas) - Wednesday, 18 May 2022, 20:11 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages
Status Closed
Assigned To Jelle van der Waa (jelly)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 3
Private No

Details

Description:

As you know SDL1 has not seen any releases years and it's extremely unlikely to do. In addition it does not support Wayland and many new goodies that SDL2 does.

Ryan (icculus) the core developer behind the libraries, has recently tagged/published sdl-compat 1.2.52 [1]. It is a SDL1 ABI compatible library, which uses SDL2 behind the scenes. icculus and community has done through lengths to test various titles - both build and runtime - and things are looking good.

Fedora [2] has outlines plans to switch away to sdl-compat, while Debian recently got the package in their repos and are discussing [3] (+misc IRC) a similar thing.


[1] https://github.com/libsdl-org/sdl12-compat/releases/tag/release-1.2.52
[2] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/SDL12onSDL2
[3] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=985170
This task depends upon

Closed by  Antonio Rojas (arojas)
Wednesday, 18 May 2022, 20:11 GMT
Reason for closing:  Implemented

Loading...