Re: [pygame] Draft of, Let's write a unit test

2018-07-18 Thread Al Sweigart
Hi Rene, I have a few general copyediting changes I'd like to suggest. Do you have a markdown or some other plaintext form that I could make a diff of for you? On Wed, Jul 18, 2018 at 8:14 AM, Luke Paireepinart wrote: > Rene, > > I think it's great you're doing this and I wish you luck. There

Re: [pygame] Newbie performance question

2018-07-18 Thread Ian Mallett
​I think OP is confusing framerate with jitter due to lack-of-VSync.

Re: [pygame] Draft of, Let's write a unit test

2018-07-18 Thread Luke Paireepinart
Rene, I think it's great you're doing this and I wish you luck. There are always differences of opinions and the way I prefer to teach is a bit different than your structure. I would remove the digressions to a separate article, and structure differently. I think the content is interesting and

Re: [pygame] Help? Linux (manlinux) builds for testing.

2018-07-18 Thread Daniel Pope
You can install other interpreters from deadsnakes PPA if you have time for more thorough testing: https://launchpad.net/~deadsnakes/+archive/ubuntu/ppa On Wed, 18 Jul 2018, 12:31 Nicholas H.Tollervey, wrote: > Tests all pass for for me on Ubuntu with Python 3.6 and 2.7 :-) > > On 17/07/18

Re: [pygame] Help? Linux (manlinux) builds for testing.

2018-07-18 Thread Nicholas H.Tollervey
Tests all pass for for me on Ubuntu with Python 3.6 and 2.7 :-) On 17/07/18 13:23, René Dudfield wrote: > Hello, > > There are now linux binary wheels for different cpythons 2.7-3.7. > > $ python -m *pip install pygame==1.9.4.dev0 --pre* --user > > If anyone is available for testing something,

Re: [Edu-sig] [pygame] learning by contributing to FLOSS (and pygame in specific)

2018-07-18 Thread René Dudfield
It depends on when/where the group is that wants to do the session :) I'll send a when/where update when I've found that group. cheerio, On Wed, Jul 18, 2018 at 10:05 AM, Nicholas H.Tollervey wrote: > This is great! A quick question: where / when? > > N. > > On 18/07/18 08:51, René Dudfield

Re: [pygame] learning by contributing to FLOSS (and pygame in specific)

2018-07-18 Thread Nicholas H.Tollervey
This is great! A quick question: where / when? N. On 18/07/18 08:51, René Dudfield wrote: > Hello, > > I'm looking for a small group of 10-30 people who are interested in > contributing to the pygame project as part of a class or user group meeting. > > Rather than a normal user group meeting

[pygame] learning by contributing to FLOSS (and pygame in specific)

2018-07-18 Thread René Dudfield
Hello, I'm looking for a small group of 10-30 people who are interested in contributing to the pygame project as part of a class or user group meeting. Rather than a normal user group meeting or class, it could be: "contribute to an open source project". Be in touch!? Let's do it! :) *Why?*

[pygame] Draft of, Let's write a unit test

2018-07-18 Thread René Dudfield
Hello, I'm trying to write a fun guide for people wanting to contribute to Free, Libre and Open source projects. It's a bit long. http://renesd.blogspot.com/2018/07/draft-of-lets-write-unit-test.html