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



On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 6:48 PM, Marcus von Appen <mva@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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
>

yes indeed, 2.4.   Strangely a bunch of it still mostly works with 2.3
and I think 2.2 as well on linux/macports at least.

cu.