[Ohrrpgce] Hróðvitnir blockers?

[James Paige]

Okay, actually, you have me convinced. Let's go ahead and switch to sdl2,
and make that the main release goal for Hróðvitnir

Somehow I had it in my head that sdl2 was unfinished, but that seems to be
somewhere between barely true, and not true at all :D

I am assuming that Android will be the one platform exception, since we'll
have to figure out how to do sdl2-centric android builds instead of
commandergenius style builds.

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James Paige

On Tue, Oct 27, 2020 at 6:52 PM Ralph Versteegen <teeemcee at gmail.com> wrote:

> Unfortunately I didn't foresee that I would spend almost no time working
> on the engine over the last two months. In hindsight we should just have
> released two months ago.
> You might be pleased to know I almost, but didn't, merge my huge
> incomplete branch for better text rendering and font support last night!
> But it's still incomplete enough that it hardly adds any new features.
>
> That missing sprite component bug (#1137) really needs fixing.
> I need to file a bunch of bugs (eg from crash reports, which I'm really
> not keeping on top of), but none of them are blockers... except maybe
> "(BUG) KILLSCRIPTTHREAD: Inappropriate call" which has been reported at
> least 4 times by different people; worth prioritising.
>
> I know this will make you *super nervous* but I would like to make
> gfx_sdl2 the default for Hróðvitnir. I am working on the gfx_sdl2
> zoom-changing bug right now, and will fix the Mac+gfx_sdl2 bug #1171 next.
> SDL 2 and SDL_mixer 2 fix many problems but introduce no new bugs I know
> about aside from those two and
> https://github.com/ohrrpgce/ohrrpgce/issues/1175.
> See
>
> https://github.com/ohrrpgce/ohrrpgce/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%3Agfx_sdl
>
> https://github.com/ohrrpgce/ohrrpgce/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%3Amusic_sdl
> (sigh, no support for OR queries when searching the issue tracker... I
> still miss bugzilla)
> There are also other problems not filed on bugzilla, especially the very
> bad fullscreen handling in SDL 1.2 which ruins all my monitor settings
> every time I accidentally fullscreen.
>
> In fact, a number of people have been using gfx_sdl2 as their main backend
> for up to two years now, so most of the gfx_sdl2 bugs were found and fixed
> already last year. I don't even know anyone who still uses gfx_sdl on Mac,
> they all migrated to gfx_sdl2 because of the numerous bugs.
>
> Actually, a main reason for switching to gfx_sdl2 is to make sure it gets
> enough testing that it can confidently be used for Axe Cop, because I want
> to use the new SDL2 Controller API, which will finally give us full gamepad
> support, which RMZ is desperate to have. So better to switch to gfx_sdl2
> now rather than in a month.
>
>
> On Wed, 28 Oct 2020 at 06:25, James Paige <Bob at hamsterrepublic.com> wrote:
>
>> What bugs do we currently have that should block the Hróðvitnir release?
>>
>> Looking at the bug tracker, I only see two with the release-blocker tag,
>> one of which I think is already resolved
>>
>>
>> https://github.com/ohrrpgce/ohrrpgce/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%3Arelease-blocker
>>
>> I also know I need to add the latest Vikings of Midgard data files,
>> because, well: *Hróðvitnir*
>>
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