Still confused about retina support

[Pazmivaniye]

I'm new making the transition from SDL to SFML and also new to owning a macbook with a high-resolution display. After looking around on here and on Github it looks like SFML 2.1 should work properly with the retina display, but I'm having the things-half-the-resolution problem and would just like to know (if anyone knows) when a fix will be implemented.

Sorry if this is a duplicate thread or in the wrong place.

[zsbzsb]

From what I understand  (can't test myself) only the latest master has the retina display support (not the tagged 2.1 release).

[Pazmivaniye]

That was my guess. I suppose I'll either change the relevant files in my 2.1 installation or just wait for 2.2, whenever that's coming. Thanks!

[zsbzsb]

Or just build SFML from source yourself. I don't know how you can just change files in your installation. 

For the record...

Commit d8812f0f5ca0e78902e0bbfb2dd3229eb960980c added retina display support on April 19th 2014.

Commit 6c1899d0f70e4dc845d7f482b22c9d79f7cd4f2f is the tagged 2.1 release on July 21th 2013.

[Pazmivaniye]

Good point, whoops. If I build from a commit that isn't a numbered release, is there an extra danger of bugs or things like that? (I've rarely built from a work-in-progress source so I always assumed that was riskier than a release.)

[Pazmivaniye]

Screw it, I'll just give the master a try

[thomas9459]

Generally, the master branch is kept in a very stable state, so you shouldn't run into any problems while using it, and if you do, you can always recompile from an older commit.

[Hiura]

Actually, the master revision (regarding OS X impl) is at the moment probably more stable than 2.1.