SDL_net library maintanance

SDL Development
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Hi!

I’m wondering about the state of the SDL_Net library. It is some years(!) ago
that I stumbled across the fact that you need to explicitly tell the TCP
stack under Linux (at least) that it shouldn’t throw SIGPIPE around. This was
independently reported by other people, too, but it seems that the messages
are forwarded to /dev/null, i.e. that the maintainer is missing in action.

I’m wondering if it wouldn’t be better and possible to import this library
(which otherwise fits in quite well with the rest of SDL) into the main SDL
repository so it could be easier accessed and maintained, or anything like
that.

That being done, I’d also have a few suggestion concerning a possible future
version 1.3, to be released with SDL 1.3, a few minor fixes to the interface.

Does that sound like an idea, or does anyone have an alternate suggestion?
Should I dump the lib and use something completely different?

Uli

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I’m wondering about the state of the SDL_Net library. It is some years(!) ago
that I stumbled across the fact that you need to explicitly tell the TCP
stack under Linux (at least) that it shouldn’t throw SIGPIPE around. This was
independently reported by other people, too, but it seems that the messages
are forwarded to /dev/null, i.e. that the maintainer is missing in action.

If you have any patches to SDL_net, I can take a look at them, and
commit them if appropriate…no one’s really working on SDL_net at the
moment, and we very easily could have missed patches and skipped bug
reports for it.

I’m wondering if it wouldn’t be better and possible to import this library
(which otherwise fits in quite well with the rest of SDL) into the main SDL
repository so it could be easier accessed and maintained, or anything like
that.

It’s in the same Subversion repository as SDL:

 http://svn.libsdl.org/trunk/SDL_net/

…but it’s not part of SDL proper (and will not be added to the base
SDL library)…that doesn’t mean it can’t be improved as a separate
project, though.

–ryan.

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Okay, I’ll have to dig deeper for the glitches in the interface, but I
recently added that one bug to the Debian BTS:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=405702

Thanks for the additional info, too.

UliOn Wednesday 28 March 2007 00:11, Ryan C. Gordon wrote:

If you have any patches to SDL_net, I can take a look at them, and
commit them if appropriate…no one’s really working on SDL_net at the
moment, and we very easily could have missed patches and skipped bug
reports for it.