[fpc-devel] graph module

[Daniël Mantione]

Op Fri, 9 Mar 2007, schreef Tomas Hajny:

> Evgeniy Ivanov wrote:
> > On Fri, 09 Mar 2007 18:36:40 +0300, Jonas Maebe
> > <jonas.maebe at elis.ugent.be> wrote:
> > On Fri, 09 Mar 2007 18:39:10 +0300, Dani??l Mantione
> > <daniel.mantione at freepascal.org> wrote:
>  .
>  .
> >> Many people @ Pascal Game Development. Domique Louis (Savage) is also
> >> still maintaining it. Writing all the imports yourself seems a bit like
> >> reinventing the wheel.
> >
> > Reinventing the wheel is to write all  SDL imports, for graph I need on=
ly
> > few.
> >
> > So you think that it is not bad to use JEDI  SDL instead writing some
> > initialization code on C and make pascal headers for it? I haven't used
> > JEDI  SDL before but it is beta. I need your advise.
> =

> I don't know what heder conversions are available for SDL. However, I
> believe there are basically two options:
> =

> 1) Have full SDL headers added as another package in repository (either
> existing like JEDI SDL or possibly a new one, although that would probably
> make little sense). I don't know what the size and complexity of these
> headers is and whether there might be somebody who could maintain such a
> package in our repository.

JEDI-SDL is rather large. It contains import libraries for many SDL =

sattelite libraries, many examples and documentation. It is under somewhat =

active development by Dominique Louis.

> 2) Include highly limited set of imports necessary for SDL purposes
> directly in the new sdlgraph (or whatever is the name).

We could limit ourselves to sdl.pas. This is the main library. All =

graphics formats stuff, 3D stuff etc. is of less importance to graph.

> This might make
> sense if we don't have somebody who'd maintain the full headers, whereas
> maintaining just a highly limited set needed for sdlgraph purposes might
> be still acceptable (possibly just copied from the existing headers if the
> licence for those headers allows it).

SDL is LGPL, so is JEDI-SDL. We would need ask Dominique for permission of =

the FPC static linking exception to just JEDI-SDL (we do not distribute =

SDL itself). I don't think this will be a problem.

Dani=EBl