Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo wrote: [...]
>So now we try to be more cautious and to avoid cherry-picking fixes >(unless they are critical fixes), unless they were going to be released >imminently Upstream first. I quite understand. No problem, I can live with continuing to patch my local copy for now. >but we don't have this guarantee anymore. Upstream did not >release a simple 2.0.4 bugfix release (or anything else) in more than 19 >months, while lots and lots of changes pile up every month without any >clear indication of what's considered to be stable and what is not. > >We already tried to encourage upstream in different ways to try to get >regular bugfix releases, but we failed so far. If you think that you >can influence them, please go ahead :) Heh, they wouldn't know me from Adam. :) Best I can tell, the SDL2 developers' employer has pulled them off it, to work on a commercial game. There's a lesson in this, somewhere. :( http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.sdl/71042 http://forums.libsdl.org/viewtopic.php?p=48819#48819 (I apologise for spreading rumours if this turns out not to be the case. It is just a post on a mailing list after all.) -- http://rjy.org.uk/