SDL status (was Re: Rewriting for Linux?)

[Andrew Clunis]

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Mamading Ceesay wrote:
> On 02/04/07, Albert Cahalan <acahalan at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Probably SDL on a regular desktop is the easiest way to start.
>> Hopefully the XO oddities will be documented or eliminated by
>> the time he has his app working on Linux.
>>
> 
> That doesn't jibe with my understanding of the current state of SDL on
> OLPC.  My understanding is that SDL isn't working and there isn't any
> work being done to correct this, which is a shame as there is a lot of
> value to be had by porting Pygame to OLPC once SDL is functional.
> 

We talked about SDL issues on the OLPC games teleconference on the
weekend.  A gentleman by the name of Kent Quirk is working on fixing
these bugs, and getting PyGame embedding in GTK (ie., sugar activity)
windows working correctly.

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Regards,
Andrew Clunis

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