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   Ryan C. Gordon (icculus@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Saturday, 05-Oct-2024 14:59:36 JST Ryan C. Gordon

   SDL3 has hit ABI lock!

   You can now trust the interfaces to stay stable. We will _add_ but not _remove_ or _change_ what's there, so it's safe to migrate your game to it!

   https://github.com/libsdl-org/SDL/releases/tag/preview-3.1.3

   We're rushing to an official release from here, but what's there has been battle-hardened in Steam and DOTA2 and CS2 for over a year now, across several platforms.

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     Ryan C. Gordon (icculus@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Saturday, 05-Oct-2024 15:00:36 JST Ryan C. Gordon

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     • Neal Gompa (ニール・ゴンパ) :fedora:
     • vv221

     @vv221 @Conan_Kudo We learned a lot from sdl12-compat, among the lessons was that it was useful to a much wider audience than we expected--not just hacker hobbyist types, but literally entire Linux distros--and also that waiting years to start it was a massive mistake, because we had to figure out incompatibilities as we worked on it.

     For sdl2-compat, whenever we broke compat in SDL3, we had to make a matching commit in the compat library to deal with it.

     Smartest thing we ever did.

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     vv221 (vv221@fediverse.dotslashplay.it)'s status on Saturday, 05-Oct-2024 15:00:38 JST vv221

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     • Neal Gompa (ニール・ゴンパ) :fedora:
     We built it in parallel from the start this time. :)
     That’s a really smart move ;)
     
     I work a lot with commercial non-free games that are never going to be updated to more recent SDL builds, and that kind of tool is really wonderful for that!
     
     CC: @Conan_Kudo@fosstodon.org
     
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     Neal Gompa (ニール・ゴンパ) :fedora: (conan_kudo@fosstodon.org)'s status on Saturday, 05-Oct-2024 15:00:39 JST Neal Gompa (ニール・ゴンパ) :fedora:

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     @icculus Awesome! So... What about `sdl2_compat`?

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     Ryan C. Gordon (icculus@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Saturday, 05-Oct-2024 15:00:39 JST Ryan C. Gordon

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     • Neal Gompa (ニール・ゴンパ) :fedora:

     @Conan_Kudo It's ready, too! We built it in parallel from the start this time. :)

     https://github.com/libsdl-org/sdl2-compat