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

[Lenard Lindstrom <len-l@xxxxxxxxx>]

Kamilche wrote:
> Well, ctypes isn't as hard as I had feared. I've got an example 
> running that blits some simple boxes and pictures to the screen. I 
> must admit, getting it going did make use of my knowledge of the C 
> programming language, tho.
>
> I couldn't use pygame ctypes, because most of the examples were 
> broken, and I just didn't want to figure out why. Instead, I wrote a 
> module to interface to SDL directly, using the ctypes feature of 
> Python 2.5. I was happily surprised to discover that SDL was just a 
> single DLL!
>
> I'm looking forward to getting into it more, and eliminating the 
> installation intricacies and dependency on Pygame. If anyone's 
> interested, I can post the example I've made when I get back home 
> tonight.
I made a Windows installer available for Python 2.5 and Pygame 1.8rc3 
available in October. It is close to the SVN but lacks Numpy support. Is 
is available here:

http://www3.telus.net/len_l/pygame-1.8.0rc3.win32-py2.5.exe

Documentation is here:

http://www3.telus.net/len_l/pygame-1.8-docs.zip

Hope this helps.

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Lenard Lindstrom
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