Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Add QEMU DirectFB display driver

[Anthony Liguori]

On 05/17/2010 04:35 PM, malc wrote:
> There's one thing that SDL does marvelously well - it's just one fairly
> small and self contained library that doesn't unleash dependency hell on
> the user.
>    
> > The fact that we have cocoa support in the tree is basically an admission of
> > failure with SDL.
> >      
> I don't think so, the way i see it: someone had an itch (i.e. an
> application that does not integrate well with his windowing environment)
> and he scratched it.
>    

SDL doesn't integrate well into a modern Gnome desktop either.  I don't 
see why we have Cocoa and not Gtk.  If the answer is, someone needs to 
send patches, expect patches soon :-)

Regards,

Anthony Liguori