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[pygame] pgreloaded 2.0.0-beta1 released



pgreloaded 2.0.0-beta1 was released.

pgreloaded (Pygame2) is, similar to Pygame, a multimedia and game
framework, based on the popular (and not yet released) SDL2 library.
It features a modular and loosely coupled package and module layout and
access to the most features of the libraries it wraps.

pgreloaded can be installed side-by-side with Pygame as it uses a
different package namespace and thus will not cause any conflicts with
another Pygame installation.

Highlights of the beta
----------------------
As announced earlier, wrapping SDL1.2 has been discontinued in favour
for the upcoming SDL2. Furthermore, pgreloaded uses ctypes to access 3rd
party libraries, allowing it to be run in different Python
implementations without modification or the necessity to recompile.

It currently offers bindings for

- SDL2 (HG)
- SDL2_image (HG)
- SDL2_ttf (HG)
- OpenAL (1.0+)

and runs on

- CPython 2.7+, 3.1+
- PyPy 1.8+ (with minor regressions)
- IronPython 2.7.3 (with heavy regressions)

The online documentation can be found at

    http://wiki.pgreloaded.googlecode.com/hg/documentation/index.html

Download
--------
The source packages as well as prebuilt Windows installers are available
from here:

           http://code.google.com/p/pgreloaded/downloads/list

The source and installer packages ship with precompiled DLLs for
Windows (32 and 64-bit); users of other operating systems will have to
install the wanted and/or required dependencies separately.

Cheers
Marcus

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