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Re: SDL Interface Development
- From: "D. Cooper Stevenson" <cstevens at gencom dot us>
- To: xconq7 at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2004 17:48:51 +0000
- Subject: Re: SDL Interface Development
- Organization: GenCom
- References: <20041031162812.SIHQ2188.mta11.adelphia.net@mail.adelphia.net>
- Reply-to: cstevens at gencom dot us
On Sunday 31 October 2004 16:28, ejessen@adelphia.net wrote:
> [not including the libraries in the build raises] the barrier to entry so
high, that
> nobody but the most fanatical will attempt to maintain
> the code. Which means the program will die out when
> the fanatics move on.
Insightful.
On Sunday 31 October 2004 08:52, Skeezics Boondoggle wrote:
> Just to chime in from the Solaris camp - this all sounds great, as long as
> the dependent libraries are reasonably cross-platform and the build for
> non-Linux/Windows machines (is that the diplomatic way to say "real Unix"
> machines? :-) doesn't become untenable.
Absolutely.
Here's a quick 'fact check' listing the library dependancies and weather or
not they currently support Linux, Sun, and Windows platforms:
Libary Linux Mac 9 Mac OSX Sun Windows
------ ----- ------ --------- ----- ---------
libsdl X X X X X
paragui X X X ? X
FreeType X X X X X
Zlib X ? ? ? X
libpng X X X X X
SDL_Image X X X X X
Expat X X X X X
OpenGL X X X X X
I was conservative. I'm pretty confident that Zlib is supported by Sun :).
Overall my impression is that ParaGUI is careful about cross-platform
compatibility.
Please modify as necessary.
-Coop