(I accidentally sent this just to arthamax)
Pygame is the most difficult package I've installed by hand on the
mac. I suspect the fink approach would be the easiest if you insist
on python 2.6 and it supports pygame all with binary packages. I use
MacPorts, which I've found to be more up-to-date and integrated with
OSX (at least for scientific python type stuff), but with that you'll
be building software for a good many hours!
The nastiest requirement for building pygame was pyobjc. Now that you
can easy-install pyobjc, it is a lot easier, but still non-trivial.
There are also a number of SDL frameworks that need to be installed.
And also numpy. You will also need to install Xcode and also a
fortran compiler. You'll probably want to install a recent setuptools
as well to get easy-install.
The installers for pygame are pretty simple-minded - they will only
install to a "framework" build (which you download from python.org,
NOT pre-installed on your system) of the corresponding version (i.e.
2.4 or 2.5). BUT - if you install a framework build of python 2.4 or
2.5, the pygame (and pyobjc) installers do it all. Honestly, you will
gain little by the latest-and-greatest python 2.6.2. Python 2.5
supports most modern python idioms, and you can just run the pygame
installer and you're done. Your book includes a windows installer for
python 2.3! So, I'm sure you won't miss much.
If I were starting a new project that didn't really depend on pygame,
I'd use pyglet. Based on my minimal experience, it is far easier to
install and somewhat nicer with its event-loop semantics and text
handling. You might also look at vpython for a graphics presentation
framework that was designed with teaching in mind - they have some
nice tutorials on their homepage.
Cheers,
Dav
On Jun 29, 2009, at 12:30 PM, artha...@sbcglobal.net wrote:
I am using a Mac PPC with Tiger 10.4.11 and I recently downloaded
and installed Python 2.6.2. and I am having difficulties getting
started.
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