[pygame] Getting 1.6 Ready

[Pete Shinners <pete@shinners.org>]

I'm getting pygame 1.6 ready for release next week (if all 
goes well). Originally 1.5.6 was going to be a quick 
release, but a few things took cuts in line (namely two 
SolarWolf releases).

The good news is 1.6 has a lot of bug fixes since 1.5.6. Not 
much in the feature department, so this is really just a 
stabilizing release for what should be the next solid 1.6 
release for awhile.

After 1.6 we will be changing the release policy a bit. we 
will be sticking to major 'tenths' release numbers, which 
will be considered the "stable" releases ready for end 
users. Alongside that i'll be keeping dated snapshots. I 
figure anyone on this mailing list will be following those 
releases. I'll be creating windows binaries and perhaps even 
get our own DEB packages back online for these "developer" 
packages.

Here is a changelog summary since 1.5.6 release, way back in 
mid-June.

* Big fixes to system font finding on Win and Unix
* Filled circle drawing cleanup
* Surface.set_at() obeys the clip area
* Fix colors when saving OpenGL screenshots
* Add new GL_STEREO and GL_MULTISAMPLEx flags from SDL
* Enabled JOYHAT_RIGHT events
and finally, today
* Fix reading from file objects

oh, and my new Pygame Introduction for Python programmers 
has been added to the documentation,
http://www.pygame.org/docs/tut/intro/intro.html


unfortunately the one thing that never materialized was 
system font finding code for mac osx. as the new solarwolf 
makes extensive use of SysFont, i was able to actually test 
it all out. Unix and Windows are now well supported for 
finding ttf fonts on the system. The calls for osx are still 
allowed, you just get the "default" pygame font returned for 
any arguments. i'd still love for this code to appear :]

also note that pygame-1.6 will be the last pygame release to 
maintain "pre-2.0" python support. i wanted to get one more 
big 'stable' package out to support the older system. soon 
after release you will start seeing 'developer' packages 
that have the internal cruft removed from pygame.
(we may likely drop "pre-2.2" support actually)

anyways, you've got a few more days to remind me of other 
things i forgot we wanted in pygame-1.6