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Re: [pygame] Python 1.5 Compatability
On Saturday, Sep 6, 2003, at 22:15 America/New_York, Pete Shinners
wrote:
With every pygame release it is becoming more work to maintain
compatability with the oldish python 1.5. At some point it is probably
going to be easier to drop it, and clean all the current workarounds.
At this point people are starting to find things that run slower, only
because they are using 'outdated' python techniques.
My current plan is to either drop the 1.5 support now, or make the
next pygame release the last with the old compatability stuff. I'm
mainly wondering if anyone has any interest in this anyways. Just
looking for some feedback on this for now.
If you want to run software on a three year old platform, you can run
three year old software. I don't see any good reason to maintain
Python < 2.2 support. Python 2.2's type/class unification should make
a huge difference for pygame for both consistency and simplicity.
-bob