Bug#798265: Please apply upstream mouse event duplication patch

[Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo]

2015-11-01 8:36 GMT+00:00 RjY <rjy at users.sourceforge.net>:
> Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo wrote:
>
> [...]
>
>>So now we try to be more cautious and to avoid cherry-picking fixes
>>(unless they are critical fixes), unless they were going to be released
>>imminently
>
> Upstream first. I quite understand. No problem, I can live with
> continuing to patch my local copy for now.

It's not exactly "upstream first" -- but the effects are almost the
same.  The problem is that even if we backport patches already added
upstream (in their VCS at least), we don't know when they are going to
be released (t has been years from the last one), or if they are
modified or reverted before appearing in the real releases.  All of
these cases happened in the recent past.

So yes, I think that the idea is the same, even if they already
accepted some of the patches upstream :)


>>but we don't have this guarantee anymore.  Upstream did not
>>release a simple 2.0.4 bugfix release (or anything else) in more than 19
>>months, while lots and lots of changes pile up every month without any
>>clear indication of what's considered to be stable and what is not.
>>
>>We already tried to encourage upstream in different ways to try to get
>>regular bugfix releases, but we failed so far.  If you think that you
>>can influence them, please go ahead :)
>
> Heh, they wouldn't know me from Adam. :)
>
> Best I can tell, the SDL2 developers' employer has pulled them off it,
> to work on a commercial game. There's a lesson in this, somewhere. :(
>
> http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.sdl/71042
> http://forums.libsdl.org/viewtopic.php?p=48819#48819
>
> (I apologise for spreading rumours if this turns out not to be the case.
> It is just a post on a mailing list after all.)

It's a bit strange... they released 2.0, then 2.0.1-2-and-3 in quick
succession, then stopped, and that's more than 1.5 years ago.

Even if the recent lack of activity is because of that, I think that
there might have been more reasons why it has not been done in the
longer period...

So, well, whatever it is, let's hope that they decide to release 2.0.4 soon.


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