Difference between revisions of "Small Devices Backend"

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 * It should add another level of abstraction and should let lowest level functions like input and screen blitting to be overriden. For example, PalmOS and GP32 backends do not use SDL. That shouldn't be really hard, as most functionality is in place and current SDL backend performs blitting only from 2 functions.
-* It should be written with extensive use of #ifdefs, so if I, say, don't need a virtual keyboard or downscalers for platform Foo, I don't bloat my code.
+* It should be highly modular, so that one only has to compile and link a given module / feature if one actually needs it. So if for example a port does not need the virtual keyboard, it does not have to link it in (which would increase the binary size, a bad thing on small devices). Yet if I still need the downscalers, I should be able to use those.
-* It should take advantage of the [[Modular Backends]] project.
 === Common Features ===