Re: [pygame] pygame to android

[tom arnall <kloro2006@xxxxxxxxx>]

got it. so pygame gives you test-harness tools?

On 7/22/15, Tom Rothamel <tom@xxxxxxxxxxx> 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 <kloro2006@xxxxxxxxx> 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 <tom@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 4:37 PM Luke Paireepinart <
>> rabidpoobear@xxxxxxxxx>
>> > 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.
>> >
>> >>
>> >
>>
>>
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>


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