[quake3] Mac OS X

[Matt Turner]

I'd have to agree with this.  I can't see why the SDL/OpenAL headers need to
be included.  This is not done with any other project that I've followed,
and for good reason.  I think it can be reasonably expected that any user
wanting to compile ioq3 is compent enough to find the SDL and AL headers
themselves.  Hell, glext.h too, for that matter.

On 5/21/06, Dietrich Epp <depp at zdome.net> wrote:
>
> Okay, I get what you're saying about SDL.  I'd rather use SDL than
> not submit patches.  I'm working on a patch to fix the data search
> path for Mac OS X, modifying as little as I can.  I'm running into
> problems compiling, and I have some questions.
>
> Why are the header files for SDL in subversion?  They appear to be
> two years out of date and cause compilation problems.  For example:
> SDL_strlen is used in the code, but not defined in the headers.
>
> Same question goes for JPEG sources.  Couldn't it be assumed that
> people compiling from subversion can get the JPEG sources on their own?
>
> Also: What's with Sys_MonkeyShouldBeSpanked?
>
> --Dietrich
>
> On May 21, 2006, at 4:13, Thilo Schulz wrote:
>
> > On Sunday 21 May 2006 07:53, Dietrich Epp wrote:
> >> I'd like to try to clean up the Mac OS X code.
> >
> > great!
> >
> >> Are there other Mac OS X coders?  Might I step on someone's toes if I
> >> start submitting patches?
> >
> > I don't think so. We had another one recently announcing he'd like
> > to do some
> > work on MacOSX, but he's not experienced in C and debugging.
> >
> >> Here's how I would clean up Mac OS X support:
> >
> > Have a look at the bugtracker here:
> > https://bugzilla.icculus.org/buglist.cgi?
> > query_format=specific&order=relevance
> > +desc&bug_status=__open__&product=Quake+3&content=
> > There are still some other problems to be reckoned with.
> >
> >> - I would ditch SDL.  Honestly, it breaks user interface expectations
> >> on Mac OS X.
> >
> > That's a no-no.
> > What are user interface expectations on Mac OS X?
> > At the moment, there are three different ways for accessing the
> > graphics /
> > input stuff: Windows native, unix native and SDL.
> > So essentially, all three would have to be maintained.
> > It's planned to remove the windows specific stuff, too and have it
> > go over
> > SDL.
> >
> > --
> > Thilo Schulz
>
>
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