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Hi there,

Couple points:

• This package (sdl2) serves nicely as the low-level binding to SDL2.
• The package hsSDL2 attempts to be a high-level API a la the SDL package on hackage.

It seems in the best interest of everyone to just bring both under one package. In #haskell-game we were wondering whether it's possible to merge hsSDL2 into the sdl2 package. Then the budding Haskell game programmer doesn't have to hunt around or rely on community knowledge, she can just write:

$ cabal install sdl2

And away they go. And we can all focus our efforts on polishing one single high-quality package. We could possibly put everything under https://github.com/haskell-game and then add us all as members.

For a simple straw man to debate, I'll propose:

• The low-level bindings become:

  Graphics.UI.SDL.Base.*
  

• The high-level bindings become

  Graphics.UI.SDL
  

The high-level ones can depend upon the low-level ones by importing *.Base.*.

What are your thoughts? If it would sway people's opinion, I'd be willing to put the initial work in one a merge of these two packages on some haskell-game/sdl2 or so.

Pinging also contributors to hsSDL2 for whom this will be of interest: @ocharles @lemmih @jdeseno @osa1 @pupeno @elliottt @Drezil @z0w0 @albertfong @codekitchen @cjay @simonmichael @tcsavage @rhymoid @ericnething @sshilovsky @joelburget @chrra @Peaker @cmears @ghorn @EdwardK

I just emailed you this, but I found this repo afterward so I'll just repost it here:

My executable using sdl2 crashes with the following message:

sdl-canvas: Unknown type 2304 for SDL_Event

I looked this up in the SDL v2.0.3 source, and on line 131 of SDL_events.h I found the following:

/* Clipboard events */
SDL_CLIPBOARDUPDATE = 0x900, /**< The clipboard changed */

0x900 is 2304, so this appears to be the missing event type.