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Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 18:20:25 +0200
From: Joost Baas
Subject: why call arts artsc?
I, and a few other people at the mplayer-docs-mailinglist were wondering why
you decided to call arts artsc. I understand usually users have nothing to do
with libsdl, just developers, but because you can choose the audio-driver
being used by mplayer, one of which is sdl, and you can also choose the sdl
subdriver, it is necessary to have a well-known or logical name. artsc is not
the logical choice, and it's very hard to look up the right name if you don't
know what you're looking for.
| author | Sam Lantinga <slouken@libsdl.org> |
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| date | Fri, 17 Sep 2004 13:25:06 +0000 |
| parents | 61b7f5eed0e8 |
| children | ca3718c215af |
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Simple DirectMedia Layer (SDL) Version 1.2 --- http://www.libsdl.org/ This is the Simple DirectMedia Layer, a general API that provides low level access to audio, keyboard, mouse, joystick, 3D hardware via OpenGL, and 2D framebuffer across multiple platforms. SDL is written in C, but works with C++ natively, and has bindings to several other languages, including Ada, C#, Eiffel, Java, Lua, ML, Objective C, Perl, PHP, Pike, Python, and Ruby. The current version supports Linux, Windows, BeOS, MacOS, MacOS X, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, BSD/OS, Solaris, IRIX, and QNX. The code contains support for Windows CE, AmigaOS, Dreamcast, Atari, NetBSD, AIX, OSF/Tru64, RISC OS, and SymbianOS, but these are not officially supported. This library is distributed under GNU LGPL version 2, which can be found in the file "COPYING". This license allows you to use SDL freely in commercial programs as long as you link with the dynamic library. The best way to learn how to use SDL is to check out the header files in the "include" subdirectory and the programs in the "test" subdirectory. The header files and test programs are well commented and always up to date. More documentation is available in HTML format in "./docs/index.html" The test programs in the "test" subdirectory are in the public domain. Frequently asked questions are answered online: http://www.libsdl.org/faq.php If you need help with the library, or just want to discuss SDL related issues, you can join the developers mailing list: http://www.libsdl.org/mailing-list.php Enjoy! Sam Lantinga (slouken@libsdl.org)