Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/3] ui: remove support for SDL1.2 in favour of SDL2

["Daniel P. Berrangé" <berrange@redhat.com>]

On Wed, Aug 08, 2018 at 02:51:01PM +0100, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On 8 August 2018 at 11:49, Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com> wrote:
> > SDL1.2 was deprecated in the 2.12.0 release with:
> >
> >   commit e52c6ba34149b4f39c3fd60e59ee32b809db2bfa
> >   Author: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
> >   Date:   Mon Jan 15 14:25:33 2018 +0000
> >
> >     ui: deprecate use of SDL 1.2 in favour of 2.0 series
> >
> >     The SDL 2.0 release was made in Aug, 2013:
> >
> >       https://www.libsdl.org/release/
> >
> >     That will soon be 4 + 1/2 years ago, which is enough time to consider
> >     the 2.0 series widely supported.
> >
> >     Thus we deprecate the SDL 1.2 support, which will allow us to delete it
> >     in the last release of 2018. By this time, SDL 2.0 will be more than 5
> >     years old.
> >
> >     Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
> >     Reviewed-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
> >     Message-id: 20180115142533.24585-1-berrange@redhat.com
> >     Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
> >
> > It is thus able to be removed in the 3.1.0 release.
> 
> At least one of the BSD VMs in tests/vm/ is still using SDL1.2.
> I think we should update that VM before we drop SDL1.2 support.
> 
> (This is probably just a matter of updating the VM image that
> is currently stored on patchew somewhere. It would also be
> nice if our test infra here had a mechanism for regenerating
> that VM image from scratch rather than just being "here's a
> disk image blob...")

Oh, I can no idea the images used SDL1, because they're totally opaque
to our git repo :-( Just an external blob with no info about how they
were built. Preferrably we'd at least have a manifest for their contents
in git, even better if there's something to automate building them.

According to repology.org/metapackage/sdl2/versions all the *BSDs have
SDL2 available to use at least.

Regards,
Daniel
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