[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 0/5] Add SDL2 support & drop SDL1 support

[James Almer]

On 9/24/2016 1:17 PM, Josh de Kock wrote:
> On 22/09/2016 20:28, Josh de Kock wrote:
>> Hopefully the final iteration of this set--it drops SDL1 support
>> entirely rather than adding another ffplay version and keeping the
>> SDL1 output device. All of it has been reviewed before, so there
>> shouldn't be too much (or anything to change).
>>
>> Josh de Kock (3):
>>   lavd: Add SDL2 output device
>>   MAINTAINERS: update my entries
>>   lavd: drop SDL1 device & drop SDL1 support in general
>>
>> Lukasz Marek (1):
>>   lavd/opengl: use SDL2
>>
>> Marton Balint (1):
>>   ffplay: add SDL2 support
>>
>>  Changelog                |   4 +
>>  MAINTAINERS              |   1 +
>>  configure                |  51 ++--
>>  ffplay.c                 | 594 ++++++++++++++++++++---------------------------
>>  libavdevice/Makefile     |   2 +-
>>  libavdevice/alldevices.c |   2 +-
>>  libavdevice/opengl_enc.c | 109 ++++-----
>>  libavdevice/sdl.c        | 377 ------------------------------
>>  libavdevice/sdl2.c       | 377 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>  9 files changed, 702 insertions(+), 815 deletions(-)
>>  delete mode 100644 libavdevice/sdl.c
>>  create mode 100644 libavdevice/sdl2.c
>>
> 
> Set applied.
> 
> -- 
> Josh

As Lukas suggested in another email, it would be a good idea to keep
using "sdl" instead of "sdl2" on things like the outdev name and the
configure option (--enable/disable-sdl). So basically, anything an
user could interact with.

The configure option being dropped broke at least one of the FATE
clients, and surely plenty of other scripts out there.
We have afaik never for other external libraries made such changes
after support for a new version was added, even if support for the
old was dropped.