Irrlicht Engine

Is there a really big difference between Irrlicht releases and Irrlicht that is in the SVN ?

You can read the current changes.txt http://svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/irrli ... iew=markup
which should give you an impression of the changes made. If you encounter a problem with Irrlicht you should have a look at the latest SVN revision as it might have fixed that already. Otherwise you are probably better off with the stable release since SVN is changing frequently and compile problems are quite likely.
When the next release is due you might have a look at the API changes to prepare for the release change.

Just curious - hybrid does your patches on your patch page work with the SVN? or are they already implemented in the SVN?

Cheers.

The latest patches are made for Irrlicht 1.1 (though not really all were updated, the changes were too large from 1.0 to 1.1). Making the patches against SVN would be a permanent job which I already have somewhere else

So I take it the patches are not already in the SVN Well something to do - patch the SVN code manually