> > It appears that Ubuntu 16.04 came originally with SDL 1.2, and > > SDL 2.0 was made available later on. > > That is not the case. Ubuntu has shipped both SDL 1.2 and 2.0 > concurrently as options, even in the previous 14.04 LTS, and > probably before that too. >
Thank you for finding this out. However, this bring to surface another problematic point: We assume that introduction of SDL 2.0 to Ubuntu is a green light for deprecating SDL 1.2. In fact, SDL 1.2 is not deprecated by Ubuntu (at least not by 16.04) - as established by you. > > That is the problem: We make, in my opinion, an incorrect logical > > leap here: we assume that if a package is available for an OS, it is > > installed (or should be installed) on any instance of an OS. > > We're not assuming that it is installed, as everyone's OS install > packageset is going to be different. We're just assuming that it is > possible to be installed as an official vendor package, should the > user want that feature. This is not unreasonable IMHO. > Again, what I find problematic is that we don't take deprecating of older version of a library by a distribution as our reference point, but our reference point is introducing of a new version. Daniel, in any case, thanks a lot for your responses, I will not respond to another email of yours in this thread, since I would be just repeating myself - I also responded to Peter and Thomas, so you can read those responses too for more details. Many thanks again! Aleksandar > Regards, > Daniel > -- > |: https://berrange.com -o- https://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange :| > |: https://libvirt.org -o- https://fstop138.berrange.com :| > |: https://entangle-photo.org -o- https://www.instagram.com/dberrange :|
