Merge pull request #2546 from pygame-community/deprecate_cython_sprite

Remove and deprecate cythonised sprite module

Author: ankith26

buildconfig/Setup.Android.SDL2.in

@@ -37,7 +37,6 @@ gfxdraw src_c/gfxdraw.c $(SDL) $(GFX) $(DEBUG)
 #or the configuration script will choke!)
 #_freetype src_c/freetype/ft_cache.c src_c/freetype/ft_wrap.c src_c/freetype/ft_render.c  src_c/freetype/ft_render_cb.c src_c/freetype/ft_layout.c src_c/freetype/ft_unicode.c src_c/_freetype.c $(SDL) $(FREETYPE) $(DEBUG)
 
-_sprite src_c/_sprite.c $(SDL) $(DEBUG)
 
 #these modules are required for pygame to run. they only require
 #SDL as a dependency. these should not be altered

buildconfig/Setup.Emscripten.SDL2.in

@@ -25,7 +25,6 @@ _sdl2.mixer src_c/_sdl2/mixer.c $(SDL) $(MIXER) $(DEBUG) -Isrc_c
 
 constants src_c/constants.c $(SDL) $(DEBUG)
 mask src_c/bitmask.c
-_sprite src_c/_sprite.c $(SDL) $(DEBUG)
 math src_c/math.c $(SDL) $(DEBUG)
 
 #GFX = src_c/SDL_gfx/SDL_gfxBlitFunc.c src_c/SDL_gfx/SDL_gfxPrimitives.c

buildconfig/Setup.SDL2.in

@@ -47,7 +47,6 @@ gfxdraw src_c/gfxdraw.c $(SDL) $(GFX) $(DEBUG)
 #or the configuration script will choke!)
 _freetype src_c/freetype/ft_cache.c src_c/freetype/ft_wrap.c src_c/freetype/ft_render.c  src_c/freetype/ft_render_cb.c src_c/freetype/ft_layout.c src_c/freetype/ft_unicode.c src_c/_freetype.c $(SDL) $(FREETYPE) $(DEBUG)
 
-_sprite src_c/_sprite.c $(SDL) $(DEBUG)
 
 #these modules are required for pygame to run. they only require
 #SDL as a dependency. these should not be altered

setup.py

@@ -433,7 +433,7 @@ def run_install_headers(self):
     if (
             "CI" in os.environ
             and not e.name.startswith("_sdl2")
-            and e.name not in ("pypm", "_sprite", "gfxdraw")
+            and e.name not in ("pypm", "gfxdraw")
     ):
         # Do -Werror only on CI, and exclude -Werror on Cython C files and gfxdraw
         e.extra_compile_args.append("/WX" if sys.platform == "win32" else "-Werror")
@@ -833,7 +833,6 @@ def filter_files(path_obj, all_files, allowed_files, disallowed_files):
             "pypm.c",
             "**/sse2neon.h",
             "doc/**",
-            "_sprite.c",
         ]
         c_file_allow = ["_sdl2/touch.c"]
         c_files = filter_files(path_obj, c_files_unfiltered, c_file_allow, c_file_disallow)