Sponsor for pygame

[Francis Irving]

I've packaged pygame, a set of SDL multimedia/games bindings for Python,
and I am looking for a sponsor to upload it to the Debian archive.  The
ITP is bug #83446.  The license is LGPL (not GPL), so the issues mentioned
in the bug report don't apply.

Description: SDL bindings for games development in Python
 A multimedia development kit for Python. Pygame provides modules for you
 to access the video display, play sounds, track time, read the mouse and
 joystick, control the CD player, render true type fonts and more. It does
 this using mainly the cross-platform SDL library, which is similar in
 purpose to DirectX under Windows.

Home page is http://pygame.seul.org/

The deb's have been on the pygame web site for a few weeks now, and I've
had some testing and feedback.

I would be grateful if someone can offer to sponsor this package.

Thanks,

Francis

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Re: [Python-Dev] Status of Python in the Red Hat 7.1 beta

[Michael Hudson]

Neil Schemenauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> On Fri, Feb 09, 2001 at 10:53:53AM -0500, Michael Tiemann wrote:
> > OTOH, if somebody can make a really definitive statement that I've
> > misinterpreted the responses, and that 2.x _as_ python should just work,
> > and if it doesn't, it's a bug that needs to shake out, I can address that
> > with our OS team.
> 
> I'm not sure what you mean by "should just work".  Source
> compatibility between 1.5.2 and 2.0 is very high.  The 2.0 NEWS
> file should list all the changes (single argument append and
> socket addresses are the big ones).  The two versions are _not_
> binary compatible.  Python bytecode and extension modules have to
> be recompiled.  I don't know if this is a problem for the Red Hat
> 7.1 release. 

Another issue is that there is an increasing body of code out there
that doesn't work with 1.5.2.  Practically all the code I write uses
string methods and/or augmented assignment, for example, and I
occasionally get email saying "I tried to run your code and got this
AttributeEror: join error message".  Also there have been some small
changes at the C API level around memory management, and I'd much
rather program to Python 2.0 here because its APIs are *better*.

The world will be a better place when everybody runs Python 2.x, and
distributions make a lot of difference here.

Just my £0.02.

Cheers,
M.

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