What about consulting with the Anura team? They already work with OpenGL, so we might get some help from that sector.
On Monday, February 3, 2014, Ignacio R. Morelle <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sunday 02 February 2014 16:01:37 Nils Kneuper wrote: > > Does the migration to SDL2 make sense? Reason against is that Debian > stable > > does not support it (yet) but it is in testing. Mobile ports like iPhone > / > > Android significantly benefit from it. Gamepad support is also improved. > > Valve hired the person who started SDL and is heavily pushing for it, > too. > > As I said in #wesnoth-dev, Debian jessie will be frozen on November 2014 > [1], > so if the Wesnoth 1.13.x development cycle will take as long as 1.11.x > (1.10.0 > tagged on January 22 2012, 1.12.0 potentially on April/May 2014, that's > over > two years), I wouldn't consider it a concern, *unless* Wesnoth 1.14.0 is > somehow released before jessie becomes the new stable distribution. On the > other hand, if we switch to using OpenGL during the same cycle, the odds of > that happening seem much lower. > > 1: > https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2013/10/msg00004.html > > Now, about OpenGL in particular, what would be the minimum hardware and > platform requirements? IIRC support for OpenGL 3.x features in Mesa is > relatively recent, and there is still old hardware around that only > supports > up to OpenGL 2.1 (such as my laptop with an Intel GM45 IGP) unless using a > software renderer like llvmpipe (not the nicest thing for small form-factor > devices with subpar cooling or slow CPUs). And what about other operating > systems? Are there going to be people who can ensure rendering is > consistent > with different GPU/driver/operating system combinations by detecting and > fixing any problems that arise, or is main support going to be limited to a > single configuration? This seems to be one area which would benefit > *greatly* > from having more than one GL expert on board. > > -- > Regards > Ignacio R. Morelle <shadowm> > > _______________________________________________ > Wesnoth-dev mailing list > [email protected] <javascript:;> > https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/wesnoth-dev >
_______________________________________________ Wesnoth-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/wesnoth-dev
