@Ben Sizer Hi Ben,
in January I received your message re Pygame and Python 2.5: >pygame and python 2.5 >Ben Sizer kylotan at gmail.com >Fri Jan 12 11:01:00 CET 2007 >-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > >siggi wrote: > >> when I rtry to install pygame (pygame-1.7.1release.win32-py2.4.exe, the >> most >> ciurrent version I found) it requires Python 2.4! Will I really have to >> uninstall my Python 2.5 and install the old Python 2.4 in order to use >> pygame? > >For now, yes. This is a long-standing problem with Python really, >requiring extensions to always be recompiled for newer versions. I >usually have to wait about 6 months to a year after any new release >before I can actually install it, due to the extension lag. > >-- >Ben Sizer As a Python (and programming ) newbie allow me a - certainly naive - question: What is this time consuming part of recompiling an extension, such as Pygame, from source code to Windows? Is it a matter of spare time to do the job? Or do you have to wait for some Windows modules that are necessary for compiling? I am just asking for sake of "scientific" interest; building, compiling from source code is a mystery to me poor Windows user ;-) Thank you, siggi -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
