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[pygame] ANNOUNCE: pygame1.9.0rc4



 
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What's new (heaps of things since 1.8.1):
  http://www.pygame.org/whatsnew.shtml

Summary of changes:
- 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.
- 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.



Source code release (binaries at bottom of announcement):
  http://pygame.googlecode.com/files/pygame-1.9.0rc4.tar.gz    (2.2MB)
  http://pygame.googlecode.com/files/pygame-1.9.0rc4.zip        (2.0MB)

  Compilation instructions for different platforms:
      http://www.pygame.org/wiki/Compilation



After 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




RC4 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-1.9.0rc4-py2.6-macosx10.5.zip 10.3MB
  http://pygame.googlecode.com/files/pygame-1.9.0rc4-py2.5-macosx10.5.zip 10.3MB
  http://pygame.googlecode.com/files/pygame-1.9.0rc4-py2.4-macosx10.5.zip 10.3MB

Windows:
  http://pygame.googlecode.com/files/pygame-1.9.0b04.win32-py2.5.msi 3MB
  http://pygame.googlecode.com/files/pygame-1.9.0rc4.win32-py2.5.exe 3MB
  http://pygame.googlecode.com/files/pygame-1.9.0b04.win32-py2.6.msi 3MB
  http://pygame.googlecode.com/files/pygame-1.9.0b04.win32-py3.1.msi 3MB
  http://pygame.googlecode.com/files/pygame-1.9.0rc4.win32-py2.4.exe 3MB


Also missing nokia pys60 builds, and python3.1 builds for mac.   Binaries for linux/bsd distros (ubuntu, macports etc are generated by them).


7071d72f343a5092cc7984fb4a198f94  pygame-1.9.0rc4.tar.gz
08d9a38ba95da95690d9b9a7308d46fb  pygame-1.9.0rc4.zip

5927acbf5a4b10e25c201691a848755e  pygame-1.9.0b04.win32-py2.5.msi
b247a99c21d333c274809d37898fb213  pygame-1.9.0b04.win32-py2.6.msi
62f2a0d27303b8dde524b575ad83022e  pygame-1.9.0b04.win32-py3.1.msi
f9295406ab9d489dff728373d94f5401  pygame-1.9.0rc4.win32-py2.4.exe
ff48ff888923672f280d6c3c8d0db3e5  pygame-1.9.0rc4.win32-py2.5.exe

35867128358fc1679f8a0dd5ad8635a6  pygame-1.9.0rc4-py2.4-macosx10.5.zip
1a79f4ef0cf87ece3872326b83e9c57b  pygame-1.9.0rc4-py2.5-macosx10.5.zip
d24bbc5d1bbcd4e8596b867f03cbb580  pygame-1.9.0rc4-py2.6-macosx10.5.zip