I honestly don't see any point in supporting python 2.3 at all, in fact I wouldn't even support python 2.4 but that's just me.
cheers James On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 7:44 AM, Charlie Nolan <[email protected]> wrote: > I think at this point, Pygame could drop official 2.3 support, but > unofficially attempt to keep it working as long as practical. If > Debian want to support new Pygame on their old version, they're > welcome to report bugs for anything that gets broken by accident. > > That would avoid the unit testing headache without immediately > breaking compatibility. > > -FM > > On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 11:12 PM, Lenard Lindstrom <[email protected]> wrote: >> This is not about removing Python 2.3 code. It is about new code, >> particularly the unit test stuff. It is just tedious to keep checking if >> some Python feature is 2.3 compatible when I no longer have 2.3 on my >> machine. >> >> Lenard >> >> René Dudfield wrote: >>> >>> hi, >>> >>> the main reason for keeping 2.3 support was to support the last ye >>> olde Debian stable I think... However they finally got their new >>> release out with 2.5 as the standard python (unfortunately they >>> released with a version of pygame from 2005). Plus the 2.3 python on >>> tiger OSX, and not requiring msvc71 on windows too... like everyone >>> has already mentioned. >>> >>> So hopefully we don't have to worry too much about 2.3 support. >>> However unless there's a good reason, I don't think there's no need to >>> rip out any 2.3 support code. >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> Lenard Lindstrom >> <[email protected]> >> >> > -- -- -- "Problems are solved by method"
