[Buildroot] [PATCH 28/30] package/python-pygame: drop package

Peter Korsgaard peter at korsgaard.com
Fri Nov 10 14:11:07 UTC 2023


>>>>> "Marcus" == Marcus Hoffmann via buildroot <buildroot at buildroot.org> writes:

 > Hi,
 > On 26.10.23 11:26, Adam Duskett wrote:
 >> The python-pygame package has not recieved any update since
 >> Sun May 1 22:15:17 2016 (commit: a9ec96e545102ae5ccd4280323d35360b0a5072d)
 >> 
 >> As python 3.12.0 no longer supports distutils, drop the package as the package
 >> is clearly unmaintained.

 > I'd like to update the package to a recent version of pygame instead.
 > Updating the package should be fairly straightforward (famous last
 > words...) but I've struggled to find a platform (real hardware or
 > virtualized) where I can actually test this with actual graphical
 > output. :-/

Great, I also had a quick look at it recently as it is one of the few
packages with a hg site, but ran out of time.

Given that pygame supports SDL2, I guess you could just test in one of
our QEMU defconfigs?

-- 
Bye, Peter Korsgaard



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