[pygame] 1.5.6 release

[Pete Shinners <pete@shinners.org>]

Pygame 1.5.6 has been released. This is a release test that needs much 
testing before the big 1.6. Major new features are; draw arcs and 
antialiased lines, system fonts, and color utilities. Also several 
crashing bugfixes for fonts.

I expect the big 1.6 release will be coming in the next 3-4 weeks. this 
1.5.6 release is considered stable and is recommended for all users.

there are two new majorish features to this release. the system font 
tools and the color utilities. both of these may undergo small changes 
between now and the 1.6 release. the system font could especially use 
wider testing. the system fonts are supported on windows and unix, but 
there is no code for OSX. (we need one of our OSX supporters to step 
forward and fill in the holes)

the other big new features are drawing arcs, and antialiased lines. i 
also just remembered someone had done a floodfill function for pygame. i 
can't remember who did this, but i intend to get it added in before 1.6.
(who did this, remind me please)

the source packages are here,
http://pygame.org/ftp/pygame-1.5.6.tar.gz
http://pygame.org/ftp/pygame-1.5.6.zip

windows packages are here,
http://pygame.org/ftp/pygame-1.5.6.win32-py2.2.exe
http://pygame.org/ftp/pygame-1.5.6.win32-py2.3.exe

we should have RPM or at least SRPM packages ready shortly as well. the 
debian and freebsd maintainers have been quick on getting updates into 
their appropriate repositories.

oh, if you are on windows and using python-2.3, you may also want to use 
the Numeric-23 binary i just packages up.
http://www.pygame.org/ftp/misc/Numeric-23.0.win32-py2.3.exe