[pygame] Re: Starting the pygame 2 series

[René Dudfield <renesd@xxxxxxxxx>]

pip install pygame==2.0.0.dev14

-- Players, only love you when they're playing

With a very tiny little bit of discussion it was sort of decided that the 28^th of October 2020 will be the pygame 2.0 release date,

because pygame turns 20.

Critical backwards compatibility fixes for pygame 2

First up, some 'critical' improvements that have been made to pygame. 'critical' labeled issues are ones are backwards incompatible issues stopping a pygame 2 release.

Thanks to Dan Lawrence @MyreMylar for Adding a num_buttons parameter to mouse.get_pressed(). This was a backwards compatibility issue, because it used to return 3 elements. Now it returns 3 elements again by default and you can request 5 if you want. Another critical issue fixed by MyreMylar was a problem with key events being reordered on windows.

But wait... there's more. Another backwards compatibility fix by MyreMylar is the "Backwards compatibility for get_flags() in SDL2" PR, which has stopped some games handling full screen mode properly.

Sigurður Sveinn Halldórsson @siggisv fixed a problem with how pygame.draw.aaline didn't look as before.

• Fix draw.aaline not always solid, and other problems

Now the anti aliased lines look (and smell) awesome.

bugs, worms, shiny-shiny, and such

Ankith @ankith26

• Some mouse cursors documentation improvements
• Fix pyinstaller issues with pygame.font.Font
• Document some undocumented pygame.image functions
• Update pygame.version.rev docs
• Adding windowevent constants
• Fixes pygame.display failing unit tests on raspberry pi
• Remove ancient file kept for python v2.4 compatibility

Josip Komljenović @MightyJosip

• Improved the speed of pygame.draw.line()
• A few more type hint fixes

Dan Lawrence @MyreMylar

• GitHub issue templates: New style Part 2
• doc header file regen
• Changed display.set_palette() test to test correct function

Adam Andrews @adamandrews1

• Code cleanup Removed PG_ENABLE_NEWBUF

@Starbuck5

• Python3 needs bool instead of nonzero
• timeout option added to event.wait() which is useful if you only want your app to wake up when something happens and also at least every 1 second or so.

René Dudfield @illume

• Python 3.9 binary wheels (which is a new release of python).
• Test sdist on CI
• Disable timing based tests on mac CI, because issues

Nguyễn Gia Phong @McSinyx

• Fix mouse.pyi@set_system_cursor type hints
• py.typed for mypy, fix pygame._sdl2 importing touch module type hints
• Clean up README and source distribution

Special thanks to the new contributors

@seenemikk

• unit test for surface.get_masks()

Sebastian Henz @BastiHz

• Fix typo in freetype.rst

Alice Lia Stapleton @slimelia

• unit test: display.get_wm_info()

This time 4 'critical' backwards compatibility issues were fixed since the last release.

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• 7 open 'critical' issues (backwards compatibility issues reported by people), and 32 closed (last release: 9 open, 28 closed).
• merged PRs
• 2008 Commits since 1.9.6 stable release
• 118 Commits since 2.0.0.dev12 pre release