[FFmpeg-devel] Dropping SDL1 support [VOTE]

[Josh de Kock]

On 15/09/2016 23:00, Lukasz Marek wrote:
> On 15.09.2016 23:36, Josh de Kock wrote:
>> On 15/09/2016 22:28, Lukasz Marek wrote:
>>> On 15.09.2016 23:19, Moritz Barsnick wrote:
>>>> On Thu, Sep 15, 2016 at 14:36:32 -0300, James Almer wrote:
>>>>> * SDL1 is old and effectively unmaintained.
>>>>
>>>> I understand this verbatim, but what is it supposed to mean? Has SDL1
>>>> gotten rotten? Or more precisely:
>>>>
>>>> - Has technology evolved, and the library not kept up?
>>>> - Is a long list of bugs (somehow effecting ffmpeg) piling up and never
>>>>   being fixed?
>>>> - Something else?
>>>
>>> It doesn't compile on Mac OS
>>
>> I've been testing it just fine on Mac OS.
>
> I don't remember now everything, I worked with it like 2 years ago,  but
> I got the same issue as here
> https://forums.libsdl.org/viewtopic.php?p=45264&sid=ae0efc2e82d373067c5112bfba70cd11
>
>
> Other example is that SDL is trying to use X11 on Mac which is dropped
> (since 10.8?).
>
> You can ignore my answer as it doesn't stand for anything. It won't stop
> introducing SDL 2.0 nor force 1.2 drop, but asked question if SDL 1.2 is
> getting rotten then asnwer is yes IMHO.
>

SDL1 works absolutely fine on Mac OS, it uses the native window, no X11 
required.

--
Josh