ANNOUNCE: pygame 1.9.1 released! (SDL and more for python)

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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

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