On 2/8/06, m h <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2/6/06, Shane Hathaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > m h wrote: > > > I've been messing around with Eggs a bit recently. They won't really > > > help you in the way that py2app or py2exe (ie you won't be able to > > > create a standalone linux exe from it). > > > > In the Linux culture, standalone apps really don't make much sense, > > because most binary interfaces are unstable. It's quite hard to make a > > standalone app that runs on many distributions, let alone future > > versions of those distributions. > > Yes and no. Klik, zeroinstall and autopackages are all somewhat > solutions to this. So linux folks are somewhat dealing with this (or > else they wouldn't have bothered making these solutions). > > For pure python solutions, if you write it using 2.3 syntax, it should > basically be cross-distribution by default...
Very true. We upgraded from 2.3 to 2.4 at my work without a single (known) problem to any of our in-house python stuff. My problem with checkers specifically is that the Pygame framework is not pure python, for obvious performance reasons (slow games = bad). When you add to that the fact most distros are using an older version of Pygame than I'm coding for, and you get the strong desire to deliver an all-in-one package. It would eliminate a lot of pesky compatibility constraints. ~ Nathan _______________________________________________ Ldsoss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ldsoss.org/mailman/listinfo/ldsoss
