Re: [Crystal-develop] Getting ready for 0.98 release?

[Matze B. <ma...@br...>]

On Tue, 6 Apr 2004, res wrote:

> On 05.04.2004 09:40, Jorrit Tyberghein wrote:
> > Any other things we should do before we release 0.98?
> 
> Hm, maybe remove some stuff that's not really maintained any more?
> 
> Some things that come to my mind are:
> 
> - The video player plugins: only supports fairly useless RLE codec resp. 
> the fairly old DivX and OpenDivX 4 (which I think aren't developed any 
> more). Although some demo how to use videos in CS would be nice, maybe 
> it should be something, hm, more modern.
There's already the csvid example in CS :) Just it's very hard to find a 
movie that really works with it.
This would indeed be a perfect candidate for getting released in an 
extra-sources package. Since this code could easily be revived by someone 
else who knows the stuff I think.

> 
> - The picogui stuff: I think picogui development even was discontinued.
No idea, in each case the CS plugin is/was very incomplete.

> 
> - Makes an SDL plugin sense if CS natively handles DirectDraw, X, OS/X 
> and even svgalib graphics?
I can imagine some special cases (like handhelds). But I doubt it is 
really worth the trouble. Since noone is really fixing 

> 
> - Maybe networking? There are some game-focused networking libs out 
> there that might do a better job in this area.
The big problem here, is that I fear some people are actually using CS 
network code :-/ Of course we could test how many people will cry out 
loudly, when we remove it, but I assume that's not our style.

Greetings,
	Matze