Question about SDL - SGE library

Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo manuel.montezelo at gmail.com
Thu Jul 9 19:32:45 UTC 2015


Hi Ethan,

2015-07-09 18:44 GMT+01:00 Ethan Lee <flibitijibibo at flibitijibibo.com>:
> Hey guys,
>
> To be honest I know absolutely nothing about this library other than that
> it's used by Eversion and, to my knowledge, nothing else:
>
> http://www.flibitijibibo.com/index.php?page=Portfolio/Ports#02_eversion.txt
>
> As noted by the GitHub commit log, I just updated the Makefile for Linux64
> and OSX... I don't even know if I ever read any of the actual source!
>
> I wouldn't worry about packaging this library, to be honest - I genuinely
> don't think any software uses it, and until it's updated for SDL2 it
> probably won't get used by new software (to be fair, I might actually do
> that to pretty up Eversion for SteamOS if it's requested of me). But, if you
> still need some upstream location, I _think_ my repository is the latest
> version out there.

OK, thanks for the info.

There are 3 dependencies within Debian (ruby-sdl, supertransball2 and
infon-viewer), not very popular, but we cannot just drop the library
for the time being.


Cheers.
-- 
Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montezelo at gmail.com>



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