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

[John Emhoff]

> John Emhoff wrote:
>
>     felix winkelmann wrote:
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>
>        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.
Not really; although there isn't much to say. SDL is used to create a 
window with an OpenGL context, maybe do a little extension stuff, and 
handle some input events.  It's more or less off in the back as far as 
the engine in concerned.

>     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.
devjavu.com offers free subversion and trac hosting, in case you were 
looking.

-- John