Re: [pygame] When is pygame 1.8 coming out?

[Kamilche <kamilche@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Marcus von Appen wrote:
> On, Wed Jan 23, 2008, Kamilche wrote:
>
> > Patrick Devine wrote:
> > > On Jan 23, 2008 9:59 AM, Kamilche <kamilche@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > If it's still not available, what have people migrated to for their
> > > > Python 2.5 game development? Are they using ctypes with SDL, or something?
> > > I thought everyone was using Pyglet now.  :-D
> > >
> > > -pdev.
> > Well, I'm looking at using ctypes and SDL right now... wish me luck. Weird 
> > how pygame started going unsupported and I didn't even notice till now!
>
> It's not unsupported and not dead. In fact we're working with high
> pressure on getting 1.8 done and released. Maybe we're even able to do
> it this year.
>
> Regards
> Marcus

Well, if there's no windows installer for it, and hasn't been for three 
years, how supported is it, really? It's too much to expect the average 
developer to have the same build tools and correctly compile all the 
sources, just to use the latest version.