The theory is that pygame_sdl2 will be able to run the pygame test suite at some point.
On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 9:30 PM tom arnall <kloro2...@gmail.com> wrote: > " And pygame_sdl2 is far from ready - there's no test suite, for example." > > what happened to "write tests first!" ? > > > > On 7/22/15, Tom Rothamel <t...@rothamel.us> wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 4:37 PM Luke Paireepinart < > rabidpoob...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > > > >> Tom, > >> Is sdl2 Pygame the way forward for Pygame? > >> > > > > I think it is - but I'm biased about this. And pygame_sdl2 is far from > > ready - there's no test suite, for example. All I can say is that I > > need/plan to maintain pygame_sdl2 indefinitely to support Ren'Py. (Or at > > least until a better implementation of the Pygame API comes about.) > > > > I would be interested in assisting with a generic Pygame packager for > cross > >> platform applications. Where would we get started in doing that, to > >> separate it from Ren'Py in a generic way? > >> > > > > I'd suggest grabbing a copy of the Ren'Py SDK (from www.renpy.org), > > creating a new project, and building distributions of it, just to get a > > feel for what the tools can do in terms of installing text editors and > > packaging games for various platforms. > > > > My thinking is the right thing to would be to modify the Ren'Py launcher > so > > that it can be rebranded and released as a pygame tool, as opposed to > > trying to make something standalone. This is for pragmatic reasons - > > maintaining a split version would be more ongoing work that coming up > with > > a variant of the launcher that can launch and package arbitrary pygame > > apps. > > > > That being said, all the Ren'Py packager does is to copy various files > into > > zip or tar.bz2 files with appropriate permissions info, so if someone > wants > > to make a standalone tool or distribution, they can. > > > >> > > > > > -- > ...... > Faced with the possibility of its extinction, every species finds > within itself powers unimaginable in the days of its complacency. >
