Re: SDL Interface Development

[Eric McDonald <mcdonald at phy dot cmich dot edu>]

Hi Erik, it's been a while since you've been heard from,

> 1. it should be OS-independent

All of it is.

> 2. it should be included inside the Xconq build.  Otherwise, you can spend forever just trying to get
> everything to compile clean, before you can start any
> work. 

Possibly. I think that between providing installers for precompiled 
binaries for MinGW32 and providing source RPM's for Linux and other 
platforms, there may not be a need to bundle everything together. But, 
if you, Skeezics, and others would prefer a giant source tarball with 
all the dep config scripts slaved to Xconq's one configure Script to 
rule them all, I will consider it. I would still prefer to provide the 
packages separately. Among other things, it will help to foster good 
will with the developers of the various prereq software components.

> You've raised 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.

As I mentioned in earlier postings, it is not necessary to always keep 
up with the latest and greatest. It is enough to set a standard as far 
as the prereqs go, and then adhere to that standard. Upgrades to the 
prereq packages only need to be done occasionally.

Eric