Re: [pygame] 0.3 Released

[Jan Ekholm <chakie@infa.abo.fi>]

On Wed, 22 Nov 2000, Ray Kelm wrote:

>My sticking with 1.5.2 in this case is pure laziness. I am using 
>python embedded in a few applications, and haven't wanted to
>update to 2.0 until it seemed stable. Having looked at it now, it
>seems stable to me. I'll be installing it on my systems real
>soon.

I installed 2.0 from the official RPM:s (called something like
BeOS-Python).  The nice thing was that it fully installs in /usr/local, so
my old 1.52 remained untouched. Running 'python' still ran the old binary,
as /usr/bin came before in the path. Now I've come to trust 2.0, so I've
made /usr/bin/python a symlink to /usr/local/bin/python.

This of course assumes Linux. If you don't have an RPM-based system I
think the tar.gz -versions too are by default fully located in /usr/local.

>One thing though - none of the major linux distros have released
>a version which has 2.0 packaged for it. I expect this will happen
>sometime in the next 3 months though. So as for 2.0 being in common
>usage, I'd guess it's not yet.

No, not yet. But I do think all new releases will have it. It will take
some thime though, as most of the big ones just released a new version
(Redhat, Mandrake, Debian etc).

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