Hello Pygame users, I have left this email unoticed until now. I now reply since there are news in this regard. :)
2010/1/27 René Dudfield <ren...@gmail.com>: > On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 4:01 AM, Olof Bjarnason > <olof.bjarna...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> 2010/1/27 René Dudfield <ren...@gmail.com>: >> > >> > >> > On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 3:44 AM, Olof Bjarnason <olof.bjarna...@gmail.com> >> > wrote: >> >> >> >> > >> >> > For ubuntu you may have to compile from source, since they still haven't >> >> > updated their package in time for ubuntu 9.10: >> >> > http://pygame.org/wiki/CompileUbuntu >> >> >> >> >> >> Um a little too much wrong-kind-of-work to be fun. >> >> >> > >> > yeah... hehe. Well luckily you can pretty much copy/paste these lines to >> > install. So not too hard :) >> >> Yeah, but the work with debugging such a "script" when it fails is >> what is much work. Plus how it would severely mess up my system ;) >> >> What linux dists' are you guys using, to get more up-to-date developer >> versions of python+pygame etc.? >> >> > >> > >> > #install dependencies >> > >> > sudo apt-get install python-dev libsdl-image1.2-dev libsdl-mixer1.2-dev >> > libsdl-ttf2.0-dev libsdl1.2-dev libsmpeg-dev python-numpy subversion >> > libportmidi-dev >> > >> > >> > svn co svn://seul.org/svn/pygame/trunk pygame >> > >> > cd pygame >> > python setup.py build >> > sudo python setup.py install >> > >> > >> >> >> >> -- >> http://olofb.wordpress.com > > > yeah, ok. Messing up systems is not good. > > I wonder if you can just install the Lucid .deb file... I reckon you > might be able to. I guess it would be good to set up a PPA, or maybe > even compile debs for people to download. Alexandre has talked about > becoming the debian maintainer for pygame... so that would be good... > hopefully it will get updated more quickly in the future. > > Alexandre: do you feel like uploading a pygame 1.9.1 .deb for karmic > somewhere? Or perhaps setting up a ppa? Or are you still interested > in being the debian maintainer? How is that process going? It looks > like Sebastien Bacher uploaded the most recent pygame package for > ubuntu on the 14th of Jan. > Since that time, the MOTU developers in Ubuntu have packaged it for Lucid. I just uploaded a package for Debian sid, and someone should upload it for me to the archives soon. The bugtracker issue is http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=544347 Hopefully, I'll announce it has been updated in Debian this week. :) > > Marcus uses freebsd. Lennard uses ubuntu now I think... Not sure > what other people are using. The funny thing is I'm using ubuntu - > which has been the slowest distro to update pygame. For me, I compile > things I work on from source... but often use the system libraries > unless I'm testing or developing them. But I dunno... everyone has > their own needs/uses and so different distros are good for them. > > > > cya > -- Alexandre Quessy http://alexandre.quessy.net/
