Maybe.... Probably. Especially if I had left a detailed comment explaining why. But I still would have required an interim solution for everyone building from

Maybe.... Probably. Especially if I had left a detailed comment explaining why. But I still would have required an interim solution for everyone building from source until these patched/fixed versions of SDL started shipping in distros. And then how would the warning message tell the difference between the original SDL 2.0.3 and a patched version of SDL 2.0.3? And we are talking about dozens of distros, multiple chances for something to go wrong. My point is that I quickly came to the conclusion that ripping out SDL and reimplementing the functionality was the simplest, most conclusive solution.