Re: [PATCH 2/2] gnu: Add allegro-5.0.

[Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>]

Thompson, David <dthompson2@worcester.edu> writes:

> On Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 4:57 PM, Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> wrote:
>> * gnu/packages/game-development.scm (allegro-5.0): New variable.
>
> I assume you have a use-case that calls for keeping multiple versions
> of Allegro 5 around?  Looks fine to me, if so.

Allegro 5.2 merges the unstable with the stable branch.  It breaks API
and requires applications to define “ALLEGRO_UNSTABLE” to use unstable
features.

Allegro 5.0.11 is the last of the stable releases and the last to use
the pkg-config identifier “allegro-5.0”, which some applications look
for.

I’m not sure if this is enough to justify keeping 5.0 or if we should
patch the configure scripts of applications that look for “allegro-5.0”.

~~ Ricardo