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Update instructions in README.md

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Assessment

Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
45/100
Issue type
Documentation
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
csharp
Domain
documentation

Research direction

Start with README.md and review the related pull request #8085 and issue #8408 for the migration and validation context. Document how to update the SDL library and how to validate that the update works; the README should give contributors enough guidance to perform both tasks safely.

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Description

To facilitate help keeping SDL up-to-date, I think it would be valuable to include primer material in the README to lower the entry requirements. That material would have to cover both how to update the library and validate that it works.

This is high value, in my opinion, as the current (not yet in use by MG) version already fixes a couple of bugs, and SDL2 has had loads of stable bugfix releases in the last 9 months.

Related issues

I'd happily contribute to both, but my unknown unknowns mean I don't know what I may break. That said, I'd happily snag pointers to look into it.

Dominant language
C#
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9
Forks
12
Avg merge
14h 7m
Merged PRs (30d)
2

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