RE: win9x testers wanted. Re: [pygame] C file pointers and file loading

["John Krukoff" <helot@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-pygame-users@xxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-pygame-users@xxxxxxxx] On
> Behalf Of René Dudfield
> Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2008 12:20 AM
> To: pygame-users@xxxxxxxx
> Subject: win9x testers wanted. Re: [pygame] C file pointers and file
> loading
> 
> hi,
> 
> it appears the msvcr90.dll does not work on win9x.
> 
> Is anyone able to test the python alpha release on their win9x machine?
> http://python.org/download/releases/2.6/
> 
> The new python2.6 alpha links to msvcr90.dll rather than msvcr71.dll
> so we are trying to see if python2.6 alpha works on win9x.  To
> hopefully try and convince the python developers to switch back to
> msvcr71.dll - if this is the case.
> 
> 
> 
> So are you able to install the python2.6 alpha, and try and run it?
> 
> 
> 
> cheers,

It is worth noting that win9x is one of the platforms specifically
unsupported by python 2.6:
http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0011/

It looks like this is planned deprecation.

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John Krukoff
helot@xxxxxxxxxxx