Re: New: sdl12-compat - SDL1 reimplentation layered on top of SDL2

On 2026/08/19 02:56, Anthony J. Bentley wrote:
> Thomas Frohwein writes:
> > Please find a tarball of sdl12-compat in the attachment. This is the
> > upstream-endorsed way of running SDL-1.2 applications at this point,
> > since SDL 1.2 has been end-of-life for a while and isn't receiving
> > updates anymore. It reimplements SDL 1.2 on top of SDL2.
> >
> > It is supposed to be a full replacement of devel/sdl. ...
> 
> > To build sdl12-compat, devel/sdl needs to be uninstalled because of the
> > conflict in library and header files. To build consumers, if they
> > depend on devel/sdl directly, this needs to be adjusted to
> > devel/sdl12-compat.
> >
> > If I get an ok, would need to update the consumer for the different
> > dependency, and retire devel/sdl with quirks entry.
> 
> This feels complicated. Why not just replace devel/sdl with this?
> The library it provides is named the same, it's intended to be a
> drop-in replacement, the ports themselves need to be tested but will
> probably be fine. We won't have to deal with quirks or @conflict
> markers. Ports that fail to build can be marked broken. As you pointed
> out, most ports using SDL 1.2 are leaf ports and most of them are pretty
> old, and most of them work with this anyway, so any breakage will be
> minor and easily fixed.

100% in agreement.