Re: [pygame] SDL 1.2.15 win32 binary is now available

[James Paige <Bob@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I am not aware of any good reason why pygame would require python2.6
I have been using pygame with python 2.7 for a long time now, and I have 
not encountered any problems.

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James Paige

On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 10:10:45PM +0100, Florian Krause wrote:
> Good, because I would really like to suggest my users to switch to
> Python 2.7 on Windows as well. Pygame is the only package that holds
> us back. Right now, we tell them to stay at 2.6 anywhere, which is
> difficult in Ubuntu etc. were the official packages are 2.7 (which
> makes sense also).
> Strange, that Pygame was compile for 2.7 for Linux, but not for Windows.
> 
> On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 9:25 PM, Zack Baker <zbaker1398@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > We can only go so far in 1.x right, is 2.0 somewhere on the horizon? With Mac 3.x support?
> >
> > -Zack
> >
> >
> > On Jan 30, 2012, at 1:47 PM, Lenard Lindstrom <len-l@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >> This will help. Everything needed for proper alpha testing on Windows is in place. In fact, with the number of Windows installer downloads from bitbucket so far, it has already started.
> >>
> >> For me, I want to get the pygame.freetype module out into the wild. The latest Pygame in the repository allows pygame.font to be implemented with pygame.freetype (look, no SDL_ttf). Just set the PYGAME_FREETYPE environment variable to some value. I will update the win32 installers shortly.
> >>
> >> I don't know how close the other developers are to reaching their goals, so cannot say how close the 1.9.2 release is. But I don't see any major delays.
> >>
> >> Lenard Lindstrom
> >>
> >>
> >> On 30/01/12 01:10 AM, Florian Krause wrote:
> >>> Does that mean that there will finally be a Pygame 1.9.2 release?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 5:42 AM, Lenard Lindstrom<len-l@xxxxxxxxx>  wrote:
> >>>> Hi,
> >>>>
> >>>> The SDL 1.2.15 DLL is now available on the Pygame download page at
> >>>> <https://bitbucket.org/pygame/pygame>
> >>>>
> >>>> 61af5d020e14fc27bcc49969371344e5 *SDL-1.2.15-msvcr90-win32.zip
> >>>>
> >>>> Lenard Lindstrom
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> 
> 
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