[Lazarus] fpGUI + SDL versus Lazarus + SDL -- pros and cons

[Pew (piffle.the.cat)]

Hi Graeme and all,

Subject edited. Cross posted to Lazarus and Free Pascal lists.

On 01/09/2011 09:08 PM, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
> 2011/1/9 Zaher Dirkey<parmaja at gmail.com>:
>>
>> If you not use it, would you please make it as an option (new Platform).
>
> Yes, it will definitely be a new "platform". fpGUI would then have eg:
> GDI, X11, SDL etc. as backends.
>

Can fpGUI *currently* be used with (JEDI-)SDL?

Also, what the sources of the latest SDL libraries and demos for 
Lazarus? I could only find (and download) JEDI-SDLv1.0.zip, which is for 
Delphi and someone else here (on the Lazarus list) offered to send me 
the latest version.

Who is the administrator for the JEDI-SDL official releases? Are you 
doing your job, or voluntary role? :-) If you say "Yes" then why is the 
latest version of JEDI-SDL not currently available for download by the 
public?

Is the latest Lazarus & Free Pascal version of JEDI-SDL only available 
via the peer group of it's users? :-( If that is true then it is time 
that a new official version is published on Source Forge (currently at 
v1.0) for Delphi only.

What is the difference between using fpGUI with SDL and Lazarus with SDL?

Does the fpGUI + SDL create smaller binaries (on linux) versus Lazarus + 
SDL? Or are the other pros and cons?

I have a Lazarus and SDL game application and I was not aware of the 
option of using fpGUI + SDL. Advantages and disadvantages, please?

pew