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RE: [pygame] Maintenance of sysfont.py (issue #179)



I see no reason for keeping it.  Most people seem to know what the
common system fonts are anyway.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-pygame-users@xxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-pygame-users@xxxxxxxx] On
> Behalf Of Jason Marshall
> Sent: Saturday, February 22, 2014 12:28 PM
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> Subject: [pygame] Maintenance of sysfont.py (issue #179)
> 
> In sysfont.py, there are long lists of fonts for Windows XP and Mac OS X
> 10.something. I think that we should remove those lists because they're a pain
> to maintain, nobody has been maintaining them lately (which is why there's no
> font list for Windows Vista, 7 or 8), and we can get a system's list of fonts
> programmatically. Does anyone have a reason why I should not remove the long
> lists of fonts from sysfont.py?
> 
> Jason