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Re: Future of pygame in Debian.

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From	Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org>
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Subject	Re: Future of pygame in Debian.
Date	Sat, 13 Oct 2018 04:30:01 +0200
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On Sat, Oct 13, 2018 at 9:36 AM peter green wrote:

> The other two are testsuite failures on architectures where frankly I doubt pygame has many users*
...
> *Both are very expensive architectures driven by IBM.

Raptor Computing sells (expensive but less than IBM) POWER9 desktops
with GPUs so it is conceivable that someone might want to use pygame
based games on ppc64el at some point.

https://www.raptorcs.com/

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pabs

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