Re: [pygame] Getting 1.6 Ready

[Andrew Straw <astraw@insightscientific.com>]

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Pete Shinners wrote:

| 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 :]

I'd still love for pygame to incorporate the patches that Bob Ippolito
submitted to this list in late July! :)

As (I thought) I sent to the mailing list last month, I've been using
these patches with great success for some time, and I believe Bob has,
too.  Bob also has a binary installer for pygame using MacPython-2.3's
Package Manager, so I suspect a significant number (majority,
probably) of OS X pygame users are also using this patched version,
weather they know it or not.  This patch significantly cut out the
amount of OS X-only ObjC code.  (Albeit by making a dependency on
PyObjC, but I think this is as it make the source much easier to
maintain and PyObjC is also automatically installable with  Package
Manager.)

Seriously, I think motivation to add OS X support for new stuff would
be greatly enhanced by the incorporation of those patches. Let me know
if you want me to re-send them.

| 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)


While you're on a build-fest, could I put in a request to build a
Win32 pygame with Numeric 21.0 and Python 2.2(.x)?  This is the
version of Numeric that PyOpenGL was built with in their latest binary
Win32 distro. (It's been a while since a big release on that
project.)  The surfarray stuff dies otherwise...

Cheers, and good luck with the release!
Andrew
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