I'm new to the world of Pygame, but I agree with the others when they 
say that mantaining compatibility for this kind of software isn' t 
important. And if somebody would need to use python < 2.x, they would 
still be able to use some older version of Pygame.


Pete Shinners wrote:

>  With every pygame release it is becoming more work to maintain 
>  compatability with the oldish python 1.5. At some point it is probably 
>  going to be easier to drop it, and clean all the current workarounds.
> 
>  At this point people are starting to find things that run slower, only 
>  because they are using 'outdated' python techniques.
> 
>  My current plan is to either drop the 1.5 support now, or make the 
>  next pygame release the last with the old compatability stuff. I'm 
>  mainly wondering if anyone has any interest in this anyways. Just 
>  looking for some feedback on this for now.
> 
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