Re: [pygame] Do we still need Python 2.3 support from Pygame?

[Lenard Lindstrom <len-l@xxxxxxxxx>]

I don't know about msvcr71.dll licensing. msvcr90.dll may be an even 
stickier issue. A  Python 2..6 version of py2exe was recently released 
though.

I am not currently working on any Pygame extensions, just support stuff. 
So I won't worry about maintaining Python 2.3 compatibility.

Lenard


Brian Fisher wrote:
> The only interesting thing about python 2.3 on windows is that it uses 
> the older MSVCRT60.dll and friends, which have shipped with all the 
> windows OS's, meaning that you don't need to redistribute the runtime 
> dlls if you build an exe with python 2.3.
>
> That being said, I'm the type to really care about stuff like that, 
> and I'm perfectly happy with 2.5, cause it's only like 1 more MB to 
> distribute, and I'm convinced there is no legal issue there.
>
>
> On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 12:52 PM, Lenard Lindstrom <len-l@xxxxxxxxx 
> <mailto:len-l@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>
>     Hi,
>
>     Do we still need to keep Pygame Python 2.3 compatible. I believe
>     Python 2.3 shipped with Mac OS X Tiger. Is it still the OS X
>     default? How about other operating systems? The testing framework
>     is Python 2.4, using the subprocess module. But what about the
>     core Pygame code? I am getting tired of testing for the set
>     builtin type or avoiding generator expressions. And what about
>     those function decorators?
>
>     -- 
>     Lenard Lindstrom
>     <len-l@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:len-l@xxxxxxxxx>>


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