The road to SDL2 2.0.7

[Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo]

Hi,

2017-11-04 14:42 GMT+01:00 Fabian Greffrath <fabian at debian.org>:
> Hi Manuel,
>
> Am Samstag, den 04.11.2017, 00:30 +0100 schrieb Manuel A. Fernandez
> Montecelo:
>> Finally, they are really commited to ABI stability in the last few
>> years, so they treat problematic ABI changes very seriously.
>
> symbols files aren't there to track ABI breaking changes (this would
> require a SONAME bump anyway) but API additions. And, as you have
> already correctly stated, SDL development was rather stangnant around
> the last decade but has recently gained more steam again. So, they
> might be adding more API between releases and we currently have to keep
> track of that manually.

What's the benefit of that tracking?

That if a programA depends on SDL, and gets a new upstream version and
compiles against (say) SDL 2.0.8 using new API functions, that then it
fails to install in systems with <2.0.8  (or that it has to upgrade in
lock-step)?


> Another question: We do currently disable Vulkan support, which was the
> last SDL version this has been tested with?

I seem to remember that I tried to enable them when the support became
available, but that it didn't work (cannot remember the details).

I thought that people would ask for it eventually, which surprisingly,
didn't happen yet.

If it works sure, we can enable it.


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