On Mon, 2015-07-13 at 10:21 -0700, Lenard Lindstrom wrote: > > If we decide pygame2 must be fully backward compatible, I was worried > > it would limit future changes. Or that supporting both old with new is > > adding too much complexity for something that might not be needed? > Pygame2 can never be fully backward compatible. SDL2 is more strict that > SDL 1.2 in some areas. Overlays and cd rom support are gone. Pygame2 can > support a large subset of Pygame1 though.
There are also things that can't be fixed/improved elegantly in Pygame without breaking backwards compatibility a little. I think if we get a better API out of it, we shouldn't worry too much about backwards compatibility. Maybe we can aim for something that will allow 90% of projects to continue working with no changes, and the others would require a few small changes to work with Pygame 2.
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