got it. so pygame gives you test-harness tools? On 7/22/15, Tom Rothamel <t...@rothamel.us> wrote: > 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. >> >
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