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o 1.9.0RC3 r
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/()() More RC for you ♥
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last chance to get any last minute bug fixes in...).
What's new (heaps of things since 1.8.1):
http://www.pygame.org/whatsnew.shtml
Summary of changes:
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many, many fixes and improvements. The largest amount of changes has gone into this release than any other pygame release.
- bug fixes for backwards compatibility issues introduced in pygame
1.8.x series. old games like solarwolf and libraries like PGU work
again.
- experimental
camera webcam module (still in development).
- experimental
midi module based on portmidi and pyportmidi (99% complete).
- experimental gfxdraw module based on SDL_gfx (including AA circles,
textured polygons and other goodness).
- python3, and
python3.1 support mostly completed. Some modules still remain to be completed - but mostly it's working.
-
nokia mobile phone s60 support.
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improved OSX support (dropped pyobjc dependency, improved installer, sysfont now works on OSX).
-
pygame.examples +
pygame.tests included with pygame. This makes testing easier, and also makes learning pygame more fun and easy.
- cleanup of examples, and addition of new examples.
- new tools to aid in development of pygame itself, better compilation documentation.
- py2app, and py2exe support improved.
This should be the last RC release candidate before the real 1.9.0 is released... so if you find any bugs please let us know.
Source code release (binaries at bottom of announcement):
http://pygame.googlecode.com/files/pygame-1.9.0rc3.tar.gz (2.2MB)
http://pygame.googlecode.com/files/pygame-1.9.0rc3.zip (2.0MB)
Compilation instructions for different platforms:
http://www.pygame.org/wiki/CompilationAfter install, it'd be nice if you could do a self test with:
python -m pygame.tests
Testing
that your games still work with pygame 1.9.0rc3 would be a great help.
Or test other peoples games if you want to help :)
Some binaries below... for the build page... anyone able to make other binaries(nokia, windows python2.6/2.4 binaries needed)?
cheers!
See a list of
examples...
python -c "import pygame.examples;help(pygame.examples)"
Run one of the 30 examples included...
python -m pygame.examples.aliens
RC3
binary builds for win/mac from the "The Spectacularly Adequate Automated Pygame Build Page".
OSX 10.4/10.5/10.6 universal(intel and ppc):
http://pygame.googlecode.com/files/pygame-1.9.0rc3-py2.6-macosx10.5.zip 10.3MB
http://pygame.googlecode.com/files/pygame-1.9.0rc3-py2.5-macosx10.5.zip 10.3MB
http://pygame.googlecode.com/files/pygame-1.9.0rc3-py2.4-macosx10.5.zip 10.3MB
Windows:
http://pygame.googlecode.com/files/pygame-1.9.0b03.win32-py2.5.msi 3MB
http://pygame.googlecode.com/files/pygame-1.9.0rc3.win32-py2.5.exe 3MB
http://pygame.googlecode.com/files/pygame-1.9.0b03.win32-py2.6.msi 3MB (thanks to Lenard for making this)
The build page is missing working python2.4(uses old prebuilts, tests failing) and python2.6 builds for windows... Lenard has provided a nice python2.6 build for windows.
Also missing nokia pys60 builds, and python3.1 builds for windows and mac. Binaries for linux distros (ubuntu etc are generated by them).
MD5 (pygame-1.9.0rc3.tar.gz) = a8e8a7c835176edcbf007af5232c67af
MD5 (pygame-1.9.0rc3.zip) = 5bc31354693786205e1493c50a3f189a