hi,

William F Pokorny <ano### [at] anonymousorg> wrote:
> ...
> There isn't a
> way to query official / unofficial status from within the SDL.

yet.


> We want to be able to set up scenes / includes with conditionals so we
> can run compiles from nominally unmodified source alongside forks like
> povr. This rules out the use of the 'unofficial' keyword for starters.
>
> We also want something like 'unofficial' which dies for non-windows
> POV-Team provided binaries where we know the code will only run with a
> given fork(2).
>
> I didn't call 'forkversion.inc' 'version.inc' to allow for an official
> POV-Team shipped 'version.inc'.

chain-loading via 'file_exists()' is nice + "clean" (imo).


> ...
> Comments welcome.
>
> Aside: I'm unsure when / if to change the povr code to force all
> incoming SDL to run strictly at v3.8+. Internally, I've slowly been
> tossing code for backward compatibility into the bit bucket. V3.8+ SDL
> is all I intend to support. However, as many are still working with
> older releases, scenes and includes, I've been maintaining the parser in
> a state that allows earlier version settings. It's useful when looking
> at posted issues...

it would be interesting to see proposals for an updated v4+ SDL.

out of interest, how difficult would it be to have two separate parsers?  one
for pre 3.7/8 compatibility, one for newer style.  (I'm guessing that the
executable would not be all that much larger, and separation might bring other
benefits)


have only spent a few minutes looking over the attached, seem ok (bar copy/paste
typos 'str_var' in 'forkversion.inc'.)


regards, jr.

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