Re: [pygame] Jython

[Bob Ippolito <bob@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Apr 26, 2005, at 2:47 PM, Alexandre Passos wrote:

> On 4/26/05, Fred Burton <flbl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Technically, someone could implement SDL/pygame in java, and try to 
> > make
> > that work (right?)
>
> Well, if you actually reimplemented SDL in Java (or in the JNI),
> there'd be little need for a pygame-like wrapper if you wanted to
> access it via Jython.
> But it could be done, by someone brave enough to delve that deeply
> into the JNI (from what I've seen, it's not pretty)

That sure sounds like the tail wagging the dog though.  Why go through 
all that trouble to end up with something that requires platform 
specific compilation that can not be run in a Java sandbox and yet 
still succumbs to the limitations of SDL (must use an entire single 
window, no native widgets, etc.).

A more sane alternative would be to implement something entirely 
separate from pygame implemented in terms of Java APIs (AWT or SWT, 
etc.), but that exposes a similar API at the Python level.  That would 
be nice for somebody, I guess.

Either way, such an effort would no longer be pygame.. so it's largely 
irrelevant.  pygame is and always will be, by definition, a SDL wrapper 
extension for C Python.  Anything else would be something else :)

-bob