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Re: [pygame] Oldest Python version that pygame library scripts should support?

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From: Marcus von Appen <mva@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2010 19:48:05 +0100
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On, Sun Jan 17, 2010, Jason M. Marshall wrote:

> In the pygame library scripts, there are some sections which could be
> optimized further, but compatibility with older versions of Python
> would be broken. I can't imagine why we'd need to support anything
> older than Python 2.4, since the current pygame source code no longer
> compiles for Python 2.3 and older in Windows. What is the oldest
> version of Python that we're trying to maintain compatibility with?

Python 2.4, I'd say. The current pygame source does not work out of the
box on < 2.4 anyways.

Regards
Marcus

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