[Tuxpaint-devel] SDL2 for the next release for windows?

[Shin-ichi T. <dol...@wm...>]

Hi!

Recently, I am thinking about that the windows build for the next version
could be based on the SDL2 branch.

Its good point is that the known issue regarding scaling problem on modern
windows system will be fixed. 

  See: https://sourceforge.net/p/tuxpaint/bugs/218/

However, I noticed that SDL2 build often crash when starting it on Windows7
despite that it looks quite stable on Windows 10 and 11. 
(By the way I do not have test environment for 8 and Vista)

Seeing the panic message when it crash:

 "Panic: VERIFY d:\build\ob\bora-14943755\bora-vmsoft\build\release\svga\wddm\src\usermode\wddmcmdbuf.cpp:763"

This seems like a handling issue around video devices in the library level,
and it does not appear to be easy to resolve.

Therefore, I suppose we have three options so far:

 a. Continue using SDL1 for the time being.
 b. Use SDL2 for Windows 10 and later. Provide SDL1 version for the old systems.
 c. Use SDL2 and discontinue support for those old systems.

Any thoughts?

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Shin-ichi TOYAMA <dol...@wm...>