What's new (heaps of things since 1.8.1): http://www.pygame.org/whatsnew.shtml
Summary of changes: - many, many fixes and improvements. The largest amount of changes has gone into this release than any other pygame release. - bug fixes for backwards compatibility issues introduced in pygame 1.8.x series. old games like solarwolf and libraries like PGU work again. - experimental camera webcam module (still in development). - experimental midi module based on portmidi and pyportmidi (99% complete). - experimental gfxdraw module based on SDL_gfx (including AA circles, textured polygons and other goodness). - python3, and python3.1 support mostly completed. Some modules still remain to be completed - but mostly it's working. - nokia mobile phone s60 support. - improved OSX support (dropped pyobjc dependency, improved installer, sysfont now works on OSX). - pygame.examples + pygame.tests included with pygame. This makes testing easier, and also makes learning pygame more fun and easy. - cleanup of examples, and addition of new examples. - new tools to aid in development of pygame itself, better compilation documentation. - py2app, and py2exe support improved. Source code release (binaries at bottom of announcement): http://pygame.org/ftp/pygame-1.9.1release.tar.gz (2.2MB) http://pygame.org/ftp/pygame-1.9.1release.zip (2.0MB) Compilation instructions for different platforms: http://www.pygame.org/wiki/Compilation See a list of examples... python -c "import pygame.examples;help(pygame.examples)" Run one of the 30 examples included... python -m pygame.examples.aliens You can do a self test of pygame with: python -m pygame.tests (or on python2.6 do python -m pygame.tests.__main__ ) The latest docs are bundled with pygame. To open them in your web browser run: python -m pygame.docs Binary builds for win/mac from the "The Spectacularly Adequate Automated Pygame Build Page". OSX 10.4/10.5/10.6 universal(intel and ppc): http://pygame.org/ftp/pygame-1.9.1release-py2.6-macosx10.5.zip 10.3MB http://pygame.org/ftp/pygame-1.9.1release-py2.5-macosx10.5.zip 10.3MB http://pygame.org/ftp/pygame-1.9.1release-py2.4-macosx10.5.zip 10.3MB Windows: http://pygame.org/ftp/pygame-1.9.1release.win32-py2.4.exe 3MB http://pygame.org/ftp/pygame-1.9.1release.win32-py2.5.exe 3MB http://pygame.org/ftp/pygame-1.9.1.win32-py2.5.msi 3MB http://pygame.org/ftp/pygame-1.9.1.win32-py2.6.msi 3MB http://pygame.org/ftp/pygame-1.9.1.win32-py3.1.msi 3MB 1c4cdc708d17c8250a2d78ef997222fc pygame-1.9.1release.tar.gz 01824b893d1d910fa3fa8bb37740f580 pygame-1.9.1release.zip 827f2d4c17db3921ad84319bca141a6b pygame-1.9.1release-py2.4-macosx10.5.zip f12f1ede9f8bb6e85e655ee0ba02fa98 pygame-1.9.1release-py2.5-macosx10.5.zip e479130494caf6ebf4d9d7f547995fc3 pygame-1.9.1release-py2.6-macosx10.5.zip 8f5a0358e5dc56a8582cd2a7e6d6ad4f pygame-1.9.1release.win32-py2.4.exe 0a39cdcc9e2d002d34b264635598b22f pygame-1.9.1release.win32-py2.5.exe 1d2c33f8560c77f0a15d78c54334d536 pygame-1.9.1.win32-py2.5.msi 9ddf40c1ef6ab7fbdc0fb2395d2a66b9 pygame-1.9.1.win32-py2.6.msi b6ce5c559549d27a3b3fb40577b6234c pygame-1.9.1.win32-py3.1.msi _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
