On Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 04:07:50PM -0300, James Almer wrote: > On 9/14/2016 3:51 PM, Michael Niedermayer wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 06:00:00PM +0200, Carl Eugen Hoyos wrote: > >> 2016-09-14 17:54 GMT+02:00 Josh de Kock <j...@itanimul.li>: > >>> We discussed this in IRC and thought that ffmpeg was a > >>> big enough library, and it switching to SDL2 may help > >>> distros to consider supporting SDL2 > >> > >> If this really were the only reason, I sincerely hope we > >> wouldn't even consider this patch. > >> > >> My question remains: What about Debian, Ubunut and > >> Fedora? Do they still have supported versions without > >> sdl2 2.0.1? > > > > ubuntu 12.04 LTS has SDL 1.2, no 2.0 > > Not even in the backports repository? Afaik that's how Debian > 7 ships SDL 2.0.0.
no https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/precise/+source/libsdl2 also my 12.04 LTS box doesnt seem to have a sdl2 unless i did something dumb > > > its supported till 2017-04-26 > > That is also more or less the date when Debian 7 will be EOLed, > so it's a good time to fully drop SDL1 support. > > > > > should we keep old ffplay as a ffplay-sdl1 until then ? > > I'm fine with that if others are (Especially Marton and Josh, > since they develop/maintain ffplay). It's a good compromise. Id be happy too as i actually use ffplay on that old 12.04 box didnt realize previously that it doesnt have sdl2 i could upgrade the OS but i intended to actually replace by new hw just intel failing to inovate and produce faster CPUs since years delays it ... > > But much like ffserver it should similarly be marked as > deprecated and essentially unmaintained somewhere. yes [...] -- Michael GnuPG fingerprint: 9FF2128B147EF6730BADF133611EC787040B0FAB Avoid a single point of failure, be that a person or equipment.
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