Re: [Chicken-users] New SDL2 eggs; help wanted

[John Croisant]

On 11/4/15 3:41 PM, Kooda wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 04, 2015 at 01:35:13PM -0800, Dan Leslie wrote:
> > As a potential user and implementor of similar eggs (Allegro, SOIL, .. nanovg), 
> > I would provide fairly lean bindings first, then do any simplification or 
> > hand-holding as an additional module. It will save you time in the near term 
> > and provide flexibility to the users.
> >
> > -Dan
> It seems to already be the case. There is a sdl-internals module used by
> the public sdl2 module.
Yes, the sdl2 egg is implemented as two modules, sdl2 and 
sdl2-internals. The sdl2-internals module is not considered part of the 
public API, and does not have the same stability guarantees. But, some 
parts of it are safe to use, which I have today written a guide to document:

https://gitlab.com/chicken-sdl2/chicken-sdl2/blob/master/docs/using-sdl2-internals.md

So, if anyone really needs to drop down to a lower level, the low-level 
bindings *do* exist. But I hope most people will not need (or want) to 
do that. If there are low-level operations that people need to perform, 
please submit a feature request so I can consider providing support for 
it to the sdl2 module. That said, the purpose of this egg is only to 
provide convenient access to SDL2's features. It is not a high-level 
game framework or engine. (But it would be a good foundation for someone 
to build a high-level game framework or engine on top of.)

- John Croisant