Libsdl 1.2 devel to be removed and upgraded to >2.x?

Xeratul · 05-20-2017, 04:19 AM

Hello,

There is still the old 1.2 libsdl into the repositories.
Today everyone use the last one, so, it would be good to remove the 1.2 from the repositories. Why to keep so old things? It could be good to just replace it by the 2.0 so that all programmers have to go to more modern systems.

https://www.libsdl.org/download-2.0.php

Programmers should today go to use more >2.x

Code:

$ apt-cache search libsdl dev | grep 1.2
libsdl1.2-dev - Simple DirectMedia Layer development files
libsdl-image1.2-dev - Image loading library for Simple DirectMedia Layer 1.2, development files
libsdl-mixer1.2-dev - Mixer library for Simple DirectMedia Layer 1.2, development files
libsdl-net1.2-dev - Network library for Simple DirectMedia Layer 1.2, development files
libsdl-sound1.2-dev - Sound library for Simple DirectMedia Layer 1.2, development files
libsdl-ttf2.0-dev - TrueType Font library for Simple DirectMedia Layer 1.2, development files
libsdl-gfx1.2-dev - development files for SDL_gfx

hydrurga · 05-20-2017, 05:43 AM

Never mind. Apologies.

ondoho · 05-20-2017, 12:05 PM

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Originally Posted by Xeratul

Why to keep so old things?

of all people, you, with your endless flood of "back to the classics" posts, are asking this?

Xeratul · 05-20-2017, 01:01 PM

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Originally Posted by ondoho

of all people, you, with your endless flood of "back to the classics" posts, are asking this?

I bought a new PC.

AwesomeMachine · 05-25-2017, 11:25 AM

Probably some things still need 1.2. There's no harm in keeping it around. And if you're running stable, you shouldn't complain. Stable is always a dinosaur!

Xeratul · 05-25-2017, 12:00 PM

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Originally Posted by AwesomeMachine

Probably some things still need 1.2. There's no harm in keeping it around. And if you're running stable, you shouldn't complain. Stable is always a dinosaur!

Most Linux distributions drop ugly libraries or softwares constantly, so why to keep up outdated libraries such as 1.2 SDL?

Let's take example of SysVinit, which is left to Unix world systems, such as *BSD*. Linux is mostly dedicated to modern hardware. Ubuntu, Fedora, Debian, Gentoo,... most Linux distributions are evolving at the speed of Light and adopt modern solutions and softwares.

knudfl · 05-25-2017, 12:36 PM

There may be a thousand or more applications which are never going to have a code rewrite to SDL2.

Xeratul · 05-25-2017, 12:53 PM

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Originally Posted by knudfl

There may be a thousand or more applications which are never going to have a code rewrite to SDL2.

It should not be a problem, since the SDL graphical library must continue to evolve. Do you want to keep old libraries into your system when SDL is evolving and getting better and better?

knudfl · 05-26-2017, 01:07 AM

Re #8.

Other "survivors":
The latest version of "gtk 1" → gtk+-1.2.10 → released 16 years ago.
Still available in all Linux OS´s (except Debian, Debian clones).
Even installed by default in some OS. Examples Slackware 14.2, PCLinuxOS 2017.
The same for libSDL1.2 .

... You will continue to see (lib)SDL1.2 for some (many?) years, I think.

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Xeratul · 05-26-2017, 01:43 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by knudfl

Re #8.

Other "survivors":
The latest version of "gtk 1" → gtk+-1.2.10 → released 16 years ago.
Still available in all Linux OS´s (except Debian, Debian clones).
Even installed by default in some OS. Examples Slackware 14.2, PCLinuxOS 2017.
The same for libSDL1.2 .

... You will continue to see (lib)SDL1.2 for some (many?) years, I think.

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At least not on Rapsberry. you need 2.x.

So much 16 years, ago. Does it make sense?
Too bad, Linux should change it as soon as possible to the last version 2.2.x. beta prime 231.
Maybe do you understand why, I say this?