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Bug 834629 - media-libs/libsdl for sdl12-compat as alternative for the sdl-1.2 ebuilds
Summary: media-libs/libsdl for sdl12-compat as alternative for the sdl-1.2 ebuilds
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: New packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal normal (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo Games
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Reported: 2022-03-05 15:38 UTC by Linus Lotz
Modified: 2023-01-09 00:21 UTC (History)
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Description Linus Lotz 2022-03-05 15:38:43 UTC 
The SDL project released sdl12-compat 1.2.52, a compatibility layer for SDL 1.2 applications to run on top of SDL2. This allows SDL 1.2 applications to run on backends only available in SDL2 (like wayland and pipewire) and input improvements of SDL 2.
Fedora also seems to plan to go this way: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/SDL12onSDL2

Ideally it would be possible to either install the current SDL 1.2 or sdl-compat with SDL2 for applications that require SDL 1.2.

Repo: https://github.com/libsdl-org/sdl12-compat
Release: https://github.com/libsdl-org/sdl12-compat/releases/tag/release-1.2.52
Comment 1 James Le Cuirot gentoo-dev 2023-01-09 00:02:07 UTC 
1.2.60 has now been added as media-libs/libsdl.
Comment 2 Sebastian Pipping gentoo-dev 2023-01-09 00:21:04 UTC 
Ebuild and commit explanation look great, thanks a lot!