Ideas for adding functionality to SDL

I'd say collision detection and/or physics would be 100x more useful for your average game than ray-tracing.

I second MJP's comment. I've spent several days implementing a voxelization-based collision detection engine; if SDL could have saved me the hassle, it'd have been great.

If you could implement generalistic collision-detection primitives and routines into SDL, I'm sure many would use it.

Let 'em first merge back the multiple OpenGL windows support to the stable release. ;-)

Apart from that, I believe video and audio capturing might be within the scope of a "Simple DirectMedia Layer". Collision detection and ray tracing would not be within that scope in my opinion as they are not very "media"-ish.

Since SDL is mostly wrapper code you could wrap portAudio for audio capturing. Video capturing is more difficult to get cross-platform though, and dealing with codecs might be a good challenge.



As a sidenote, and personal opinion: I don't think wrapping ODE (or portAudio for that matter) in SDL is enough of a challenge for a final year project. I don't know if your final year project in Israel is like the final internship I did at school (half a year, fulltime, one project/subject), but in that period of time wrapping ODE is a no-brainer.

I'd love to see a cross platform solution for force feedback implemented into SDL, and I know I'm not alone on it.

The force feedback for SDL is a project on Google Summer of Code, it's already taken, so nothing to do for me there...