On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 2:30 PM, Kartik Thakore <thakore.kar...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> I think if you write your SDLX sugar layer and make it compatible with >> sdldl 2.x, then no need for such an interface, and all sdlpl >> applications can upgrade to using your new SDL+SDLX stuff without a >> code change. It seems better. >> > There probably is going to be a little change but not as drastic as now. The > biggest problem I see is the fundamental type has changed but if SDLX:: > bless the SDL objects to hash refs we should be fine. I think ... breno is > better at this stuff let me ask him. > > He has already written a SDLX::Rect. > >
Hi there, There are a lot of good things in 2.x and I believe those will be ported to the new interface. However, our primary concern at this time is to take what's good in every framework we can think of and get rid of what's bad, so you should expect not only new features but backwards-incompatible changes as well. On the other hand, the sole fact that now we have a tiny wrapper around all core SDL functions means we can just as easily create a '2.x legacy' layer that would achieve the exact same results, for people not interested in porting their apps, just in using an updated, non-leaking, faster wrapper :-) Cheers, -b
