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

["René Dudfield" <renesd@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

Just a note for those following this thread... the python developers
have decided to drop support for win9x, winme, winnt, and win2k(except
they say it should still work win2k with the latest service pack
applied) for python 2.6.

Which means that pygame with CPython 2.6 won't be able to support
those OS's as well.  This is a shame since at around 2-5% of people
still use one of those OS's (according to w3c stats).  Yes that's more
people than use linux or mac individually (again according to w3c
stats http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_os.asp).

The work around is to stick with python2.5 for those platforms.
Luckily python2.5 is really nice :)

So I think we'll have to recommend people stick with CPython2.5 to
write portable programs :(


cheers,




On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 5:39 AM, James Paige <Bob@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Thu, May 01, 2008 at 10:35:03AM -0700, Patrick Mullen wrote:
>  >    "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."
>  >
>  >    ...
>  >
>  >    Lame, but somewhat understandable.  I haven't seen a live win9x machine in
>  >    quite a while.  Even my grandparents have moved on :)
>  >
>  >    Still lame though.
>
>  I still have three Windows 98 boxes, and one Windows 95 box at work...
>  but I guess I don't *need* to run pygame on the furnace control console
>  workstation ;)
>
>  ---
>  James Paige
>