I think if you submit a bug report it might get a little more attention.
On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 1:52 PM, Lenard Lindstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am waiting for a reply on comp.lang.python as to what manifest is needed > so SDL can use msvcr90.dll. How long until Pygame can be ported to Python > 2.6 on Windows depends on whether or not such a thing exists. > > Lenard > > > > > René Dudfield wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > Just a note for those following this thread... the python developers > > have decided to drop support for win9x, winme, winnt, and win2k(except > > they say it should still work win2k with the latest service pack > > applied) for python 2.6. > > > > Which means that pygame with CPython 2.6 won't be able to support > > those OS's as well. This is a shame since at around 2-5% of people > > still use one of those OS's (according to w3c stats). Yes that's more > > people than use linux or mac individually (again according to w3c > > stats http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_os.asp). > > > > The work around is to stick with python2.5 for those platforms. > > Luckily python2.5 is really nice :) > > > > So I think we'll have to recommend people stick with CPython2.5 to > > write portable programs :( > > > > > > cheers, > > > > > > > > > > On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 5:39 AM, James Paige <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > > > > On Thu, May 01, 2008 at 10:35:03AM -0700, Patrick Mullen wrote: > > > > "It is worth noting that win9x is one of the platforms > specifically > > > > unsupported by python 2.6: > > > > http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0011/ > > > > > > > > It looks like this is planned deprecation." > > > > > > > > ... > > > > > > > > Lame, but somewhat understandable. I haven't seen a live win9x > machine in > > > > quite a while. Even my grandparents have moved on :) > > > > > > > > Still lame though. > > > > > > I still have three Windows 98 boxes, and one Windows 95 box at work... > > > but I guess I don't *need* to run pygame on the furnace control console > > > workstation ;) > > > > > > > > > > > > >
