Re: [pygame] Pygame's future beyond 1.8
by renesd other posts by this author
Aug 20 2006 2:56PM messages near this date
[pygame] Pygame's future beyond 1.8
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Re: [pygame] Pygame's future beyond 1.8
I do not plan to use pygame ctypes, and will continue C pygame. It
will be as a fork since pygame ctypes is planned to become pygame 2.0.
On 8/20/06, Richard Jones <richardjones@[...].au> wrote:
> Now that pygame-ctypes can run everything I, and several other people, have
> thrown at it, I guess it'd be a good time to think about what PyGame's future
> is.
>
> Here's my vision:
>
> * pygame-ctypes and possibly sdl-ctypes 1.0 are released in a month or so
> * pygame 1.8 is released in about the same timeframe
> * active feature development halts on the pygame(old) codebase, with bug
> fixes possibly causing a new release (1.8.1, etc)
> * pygame-ctypes is renamed "pygame 2.0" and is released when its performance
> matches or exceeds pygame 1.8 (using Pyrex/C extensions where needed, but
> always retaining pure-python codepaths for all operations)
>
> Thoughts for pygame 2.0:
>
> * hook into a separate mature drawing library using ctypes (possibly one with
> SVG support? Cairo? Amanith?)
> * include a network library?
> * update pygame docs to reference cool new features available due to direct
> sdl library access and other things (eg. numpy arrays as surfaces)
> * any other new features?
>
>
> Richard
>
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