I am not aware of any good reason why pygame would require python2.6 I have been using pygame with python 2.7 for a long time now, and I have not encountered any problems.
--- James Paige On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 10:10:45PM +0100, Florian Krause wrote: > Good, because I would really like to suggest my users to switch to > Python 2.7 on Windows as well. Pygame is the only package that holds > us back. Right now, we tell them to stay at 2.6 anywhere, which is > difficult in Ubuntu etc. were the official packages are 2.7 (which > makes sense also). > Strange, that Pygame was compile for 2.7 for Linux, but not for Windows. > > On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 9:25 PM, Zack Baker <[email protected]> wrote: > > We can only go so far in 1.x right, is 2.0 somewhere on the horizon? With > > Mac 3.x support? > > > > -Zack > > > > > > On Jan 30, 2012, at 1:47 PM, Lenard Lindstrom <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> This will help. Everything needed for proper alpha testing on Windows is > >> in place. In fact, with the number of Windows installer downloads from > >> bitbucket so far, it has already started. > >> > >> For me, I want to get the pygame.freetype module out into the wild. The > >> latest Pygame in the repository allows pygame.font to be implemented with > >> pygame.freetype (look, no SDL_ttf). Just set the PYGAME_FREETYPE > >> environment variable to some value. I will update the win32 installers > >> shortly. > >> > >> I don't know how close the other developers are to reaching their goals, > >> so cannot say how close the 1.9.2 release is. But I don't see any major > >> delays. > >> > >> Lenard Lindstrom > >> > >> > >> On 30/01/12 01:10 AM, Florian Krause wrote: > >>> Does that mean that there will finally be a Pygame 1.9.2 release? > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 5:42 AM, Lenard Lindstrom<[email protected]> wrote: > >>>> Hi, > >>>> > >>>> The SDL 1.2.15 DLL is now available on the Pygame download page at > >>>> <https://bitbucket.org/pygame/pygame> > >>>> > >>>> 61af5d020e14fc27bcc49969371344e5 *SDL-1.2.15-msvcr90-win32.zip > >>>> > >>>> Lenard Lindstrom > >>>> > >>> > >>> > >> > > > > -- > www.fladd.de - fladd.de: Homepage of Florian Krause > blog.fladd.de - fladd's Blog: Blog of Florian Krause > intermezzo.fladd.de - Intermezzo: Music by Florian Krause and Giacomo Novembre >
