Re: [Qemu-devel] [QUESTION] SDL 1.2 support

[Aleksandar Markovic]

On Tue, Jul 16, 2019 at 7:44 PM Daniel P. Berrangé <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Jul 16, 2019 at 07:09:37PM +0200, Aleksandar Markovic wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 16, 2019 at 1:54 PM Thomas Huth <address@hidden> wrote:
> > >
> > > On 16/07/2019 13.17, Aleksandar Markovic wrote:
> > > > Hello, Gerd, Daniel, and others involved.
> > > >
> > > > I have multiple reports from end users that say that transition from
> > > > SDL 1.2 to SDL 2.0 was difficult, or even impossible for their hosts.
> > > > In that light, they don't appreciate removing SDL 1.2 support from
> > > > QEMU. The most notable example is Ubutnu 16.04, where it looks there
> > > > is no way of installing SDL 2.0 that does not involve complete OS
> > > > upgrade, which, for various reasons, many are not willing to do.
> > >
> > > What's the problem here? According to
> > > https://packages.ubuntu.com/xenial/libsdl2-2.0-0 the library should be
> > > available there.
> > >
> >
> > Yes, we, as developers, are good at upgrading, we like flexibility in
> > our development systems, and naturally want to try latest and greatest
> > tools and libraries.
>
> We were actually very conservative in requiring use of SDL 2. We shipped
> QEMU with both SDL 1.2 & 2.0 support for many releases, and have only
> dropped SDL 1.2 support *5* years after SDL 2.0 was shipped.
>

Daniel, that is fine, I don't question that, I basically wanted to start a talk
between us to clarify some things. Related to our situation in the field,
I have a sub-question to you:

Let's say there is a build system with SDL 1.2, and not SDL 2.0. Should
QEMU refuse to build?

Yours,
Aleksandar