[pygame] pygame 1.7.2pre

[Xian <xian_@xxxxxxx>]

Hi everyone

Does anyone know when the next release will be published?

In any case, I finally managed to download a copy from CVS ( I'm not 
familiar with CVS). But it seems, there is a compiler needed to build a 
working package? First I thought that with the precompiled depencies it 
will work only running the setup.py file, but it did not. Can please 
someone tell me what tools are needed and how to perform this task? On 
the pygame homepage it isn't explained in such detail and I could not 
figure it out, sorry.

I'm running WinXP, Python 2.4.1.

The setup.py give me following:
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C:\....\CVS\pygame>setup.py

Using WINDOWS configuration...


No Arguments Given, Perform Default Install? [Y/n]y


WARNING, No "Setup" File Exists, Running "config.py"

Use the SDL libraries in "prebuilt"? [Y/n]y

There was an error creating the Setup file, check for errors
or make a copy of "Setup.in" and edit by hand.

Continuing With "setup.py"
Traceback (most recent call last):
 File "C:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\XereX\Eigene 
Dateien\InetDownloads\CVS\pygame\setup.py", line
137, in ?
   tempcompiler = new_compiler()
 File "C:\Programme\Coding\Python2.4.1\lib\distutils\ccompiler.py", 
line 1177, in new_compiler
   return klass (None, dry_run, force)
 File "C:\Programme\Coding\Python2.4.1\lib\distutils\msvccompiler.py", 
line 211, in __init__
   self.__macros = MacroExpander(self.__version)
 File "C:\Programme\Coding\Python2.4.1\lib\distutils\msvccompiler.py", 
line 112, in __init__
   self.load_macros(version)
 File "C:\Programme\Coding\Python2.4.1\lib\distutils\msvccompiler.py", 
line 133, in load_macros
   raise DistutilsPlatformError, \
distutils.errors.DistutilsPlatformError: The .NET Framework SDK needs to 
be installed before buildin
g extensions for Python.
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Thank you in advance.

Manuel