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

["René Dudfield" <renesd@xxxxxxxxx>]

I think if you submit a bug report it might get a little more attention.


On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 1:52 PM, Lenard Lindstrom <len-l@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I am waiting for a reply on comp.lang.python as to what manifest is needed
> so SDL can use msvcr90.dll. How long until Pygame can be ported to Python
> 2.6 on Windows depends on whether or not such a thing exists.
>
>  Lenard
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>  René Dudfield wrote:
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> > 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,
> >
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> > On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 5:39 AM, James Paige <Bob@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
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> > > 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 ;)
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