Re: [pygame] Pygame's future beyond 1.8

[Richard Jones <richardjones@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sunday 20 August 2006 14:35, Peter Shinners wrote:
> Your plans sound right to me. I'm not as worried about the performance
> penalty of ctypes though.

Nor am I, really.


> I do hope that ARM support comes soon for 
> ctypes (I know it was another Google SOC project)

I hope so too :)


> In about a year I expect SDL will release their "version 2". The
> development is happening in their 1.3 branch and it is impressive;
> opengl rendering, multiple windows, etc.

Cool. Is there a web page with this information? Does 1.3 (er, 2.0?) include 
drawing commands?


> The only question we face is do we wait for the "2.0" tag ourselves
> until things. It would be cool if SDL2 and Pygame2 were synced. On the
> other hand, probably not worth ransoming our own versions for.

Since pygame is more than just SDL, I don't see a real problem with not 
matching SDL versions. Perhaps the *SDL* ctypes library should match version 
numbers though?


    Richard