[Bf-committers] SDL library upgrade

2014-11-13 Thread Sergey Sharybin
Hi, This is actually coming from a conversation with Martijn about switching to SDL-2.0 on Windows, but we need to make everyone informed. So basically the need of upgrade on Windows is caused by some issues happening with SDL-1.2 (which is currently used for all platforms) on Windows 8. So

Re: [Bf-committers] SDL library upgrade

2014-11-13 Thread Martijn Berger
Hi, In general I do not think we should be to dogmatic in terms of library versions across platforms. Run-time loading is however a cool solution and I guess it fits really well for SDL. Blender has been ready for this for some time thanks to Campbell but I am unsure if we are actively using the

Re: [Bf-committers] SDL library upgrade

2014-11-13 Thread Sergey Sharybin
I would hate making SDL2 a mandatory package to be installed before you can even start blender. That'd be just undiscussable stupid. Can even add period here. The status of the wrangler is so-called works for me (tm), the patch is under review now https://developer.blender.org/D878 Hereby, linux