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Re: [pygame] Future of pygame?

Here's a more recent roadmap for SDL 1.3

http://icculus.org/cgi-bin/finger/finger.pl?user=icculus&date=2007-10-07&section=sdl13

pygame should eventually come out with a new version...  I think I can
work more on it in about a week...


On 10/15/07, Chris Smith <maximinus@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> You can read more about what's happening in the SDL world here -
>
> http://www.libsdl.org/cgi/docwiki.cgi/FAQ_20SDL_20Version_202
>
> Although it would be fair to say movement is slow. On the other hand, SDL +
> PyGame both work fine, I don't see a real urgent need for a ton of extra
> features.
>
>
> On 10/15/07, Luke Paireepinart <rabidpoobear@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Mark Wexler wrote:
> > > Hello. I'm a big fan of pygame, in fact I've been using it in the past
> > > three years in a class I teach in which students learn how to create
> > > and program psychology experiments--so I'd like to thank the
> > > developers for doing such a good job. However, my co-instructors and I
> > > are a little bit worried about the future of the library, since there
> > > hasn't been a new release in a couple of years, and we can't really
> > > find any information on the developers' future plans. It's important
> > > for us to teach our students something they'll continue to be able to
> > > use. So could some of the people working on pygame give us some idea
> > > of where pygame is going in the next couple of years?
> > >
> > > Thanks a lot,
> > > Mark Wexler
> > >
> > >
> > Mark -
> > As far as I know, the main issue is with SDL.
> > We're waiting for an official 1.3 release, because Pygame is based on
> > SDL, so once 1.3 comes out, all
> > of its new features can be added into Pygame.
> > I believe pygame 1.8 is near completion, and some binaries of it have
> > been posted to this list numerous times.
> > I think 1.8 is still based on SDL 1.2, however.
> > I'll let someone more knowledgeable than I on the issue elaborate.
> >
>
>
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