Hi all, Thank you Peter Shinners for your invaluable contribution to Pygame. We have some very positive comments in this thread. As RenPy can't be used to write games with animation but only visula novels why not support Kivy or Py4A and look forward to PYGAME 2.0?
On Sat, Jul 11, 2015 at 11:04 AM, Tom Easterbrook < tomeasterbroo...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello Everyone, > > I have known of PyGame for several months as I have been using it as part > of my college qualification and defiantly agree a new clean modem website > is a must and something I would happily work on if this is something the > community is interested in. > > Thanks > > Tom > > On Sat, Jul 11, 2015 at 5:44 AM, Daniel Foerster <pydsig...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> >> On 07/10/2015 09:47 PM, Peter Shinners wrote: >> >>> I haven't been paying close attention to Pygame, but it doesn't seem >>> controversial to say things have stalled. >>> >> Not at all, unfortunately. >> >>> * Getting 1.9.2 actually released >>> >> At the least we need a stable release so that Python 3 support can land >> in official repositories. >> >>> * Moving on to "Pygame 2", whatever that means >>> >> I don't know how the rest of the mailing list feels, but looking at SDL >> 2 (perhaps along the lines of Ren'Py's pygame_sdl2 project?) seems like a >> decent starting point. >> >>> * Catch up on the Bitbucket pull requests >>> It seems there are still many great people involved with the Pygame >>> project. Perhaps I can help by getting those people the control they need >>> to make progress. >>> >> We're suffering from a lack of people who have the time and power to >> review and approve the PRs as much as anything. >> >>> * Website replacement and love >>> >> It's definitely overdue for an overhaul, I'd be willing to work on that >> if I can get some information on what server-side tools are available (time >> for some modern Python web frameworks and templating abilities!). >> >>> * Migrate forum to Reddit (or community forum) >>> >> I would suggest checking out Discourse, it seems like a pretty well >> engineered solution, much better than phpBB would be at the least! >> >>> I'm completely detached from things at this point, so I don't have any >>> context to jump in and try to change anything. What parts of the project >>> are going well these days? >>> >> People are still writing cool stuff in Pygame and bugs seem to still be >> getting fixed. >> >> > > > -- > Regards, > > Tom Easterbrook > > This email and any attachments to it may be confidential and are intended > solely for the use of the individual to whom it is addressed. Any views or > opinions expressed are solely those of the author and do not necessarily > represent those of any other person or organisation > > If you are not the intended recipient of this email, you must neither take > any action based upon its contents, nor copy or show it to anyone. > > Please contact the sender if you believe you have received this email in > error. > -- Diliup Gabadamudalige http://www.diliupg.com http://soft.diliupg.com/ ********************************************************************************************** This e-mail is confidential. It may also be legally privileged. If you are not the intended recipient or have received it in error, please delete it and all copies from your system and notify the sender immediately by return e-mail. Any unauthorized reading, reproducing, printing or further dissemination of this e-mail or its contents is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. Internet communications cannot be guaranteed to be timely, secure, error or virus-free. The sender does not accept liability for any errors or omissions. **********************************************************************************************
