On Sun, 20 Apr 2008, Darran Kartaschew wrote: > 1. Well since SDL is focused on games, I'll submit an RFE for it. (I > do understand Solaris isn't for gaming, but it is nice to have a few > rounds of Quake every now and then. And also with Indiana, I assume > Sun is trying to capture the Linux crowd, which unfortunately > includes some gamers).
The incentive for SDL is games but it is a quite valuable portable interface for getting image data to a display in a real-time fashion. This encompasses far more than games. Since OpenGL is also portable, it is useful if it is available from SDL if licensing permits it. Bob ====================================== Bob Friesenhahn bfriesen at simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/
