Re: [Chicken-hackers] SDL as an OpenGL windowng toolkit

[Brandon J. Van Every]

John Emhoff wrote:
> felix winkelmann wrote:
>
>
>    Are you sure we are talking about the same SDL? I mean
>    http://www.libsdl.org.
>
> | Yes we are. None of the leading open source 3D game engines are 
> written on top of SDL.
>
> Not sure I agree with you. I'm pretty sure Quake 4, the Unreal 
> Tournaments and a bunch of other miscellaneous games use SDL.

Do you have any precise information on the role of SDL in these engines? 
I've found some references but they're not terribly clear.

> Anywhoo, it sounds like you guys have gotten some stuff under way. Do 
> you have a source repository up somewhere?

Not yet as I've been lazy.  We're still eyeballing each other's code, 
and also the CPW and GLFW toolkits for starter code.


Cheers,
Brandon Van Every