SDL 3.0 Drops Its OpenGL ES 1.0 Render Path

[phoronix]

Phoronix: SDL 3.0 Drops Its OpenGL ES 1.0 Render Path

With SDL 3.0 in development and it taking a more modern focus and doing away with various pieces of old code, one of the latest chunks of code being retired is the OpenGL ES 1.0 2D render path...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/SDL-3.0-Drops-Open-GLES-1.0

[uxmkt]

* 34231f5ba reverted opengles removal.

Headless chickens running around.

[Mangogeddon]

* 34231f5ba reverted opengles removal.

Headless chickens running around.

To be clear to anyone reading this, this is a joke. There was no actual revert for this removal (yet).

[kpedersen]

Luckily, for the Emscripten port of SDL3, the WebGL 1.x spec is based on OpenGL | ES 2.

Perfect for mobile browsers that are consistently out of date.

[uxmkt]

To be clear to anyone reading this, this is a joke. There was no actual revert for this removal (yet).

Then what's this? Looks pretty much like a revert, not a new NSA backdoor.

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src/render/opengles/SDL_render_gles.c | 1218 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
src/video/SDL_sysvideo.h | 2 +-
src/video/SDL_video.c | 18 +-
src/video/uikit/SDL_uikitevents.m | 2 +-
src/video/uikit/SDL_uikitopengles.h | 4 +-
src/video/uikit/SDL_uikitopengles.m | 2 +-
src/video/uikit/SDL_uikitopenglview.h | 4 +-
src/video/uikit/SDL_uikitopenglview.m | 2 +-
src/video/uikit/SDL_uikitvideo.m | 2 +-
src/video/uikit/SDL_uikitviewcontroller.m | 2 +-
src/video/uikit/SDL_uikitwindow.m | 2 +-
src/video/x11/SDL_x11window.c | 2 +-
test/CMakeLists.txt | 1 +
test/Makefile.in | 4 +
test/configure | 35 +
test/configure.ac | 18 +
test/testgles.c | 355 +++++++++
37 files changed, 1877 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)
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