Actually I would go for this. It should still be possible to build
Pygame for Python 2.3 on Windows. Basically only some unit test code and
the Windows dependency build stuff is now 2.4.
Lenard
Brian Fisher wrote:
I actually see more point in supporting 2.3 than 2.4
2.4 was a pretty worthless release :)
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 2:38 PM, James Mills
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
wrote:
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] <mailto:[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] <mailto:[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] <mailto:[email protected]>>
>>
>>
>
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