Poll: what do you need?

SDL Development
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(first of all sorry for my English)

Hi!

My name is Guido,

I have developed with SDL for 4/5 years for my personal projects only.
Sometimes I have read this list, but this is the first time I send a message.

In this years I have seen a lot of SDL libraries… obviously there is something
I like and something I don’t like. For example I don’t like very much SDL_Config
APIs so I was thinking about writing my own version, but…

since it is useless to develope something that no one needs, I am asking you

what do you think SDL needs?
Wich kind of library do you need but no one has developed?
what you don’t like in the SDL libraries?
etc…

I am not saying that I am going to develop the things that will be written in
the first reply… I am only looking for useful informations, in order to spend
my free time on SDL in a “useful” way.

well… “that’s all folks”.

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Guido <guidobilli gmail.com> writes:

what do you think SDL needs?

I wasn’t able to find an SDL library for cross-platform file management.
Hopefully, I’m just not looking hard enough, because all I need is a way to
auto-detect the name and full path of the application executable on runtime.
Trival to do in Windows and (probably) also in MacOS, but I still haven’t
found the button that makes X11 do it.

Wich kind of library do you need but no one has developed?
what you don’t like in the SDL libraries?

Too many libraries needed for even relatively simple work. I’d love to see
the most commonly used libraries combined into a single package, as an option
for those of us who are prepared to sacriface a few MB for easier installation
and distribution.