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Fedora 42 Eyes Replacing SDL2 With sdl2-compat To Leverage SDL3


The SDL2 library is widely used by cross-platform games and other software

Fedora 42 is eyeing the possibility of replacing SDL2 with the sdl2-compat code so that by way of this compatibility layer the newer SDL3 version will ultimately be used instead. With many games still relying on SDL2 and unlikely to be ported over to SDL3, the proposal raised by Neal Gompa is for sdl2-compat to be used in place of the native SDL2 libraries on next year's Fedora 42 release. SDL2 hasn't seen feature development in a while now with all resources poured into the much more modern and nicer SDL3.

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