Re: [pygame] Announce: SolarWolf Beta

[Joost Yervante Damad <j.damad@qahwah.net>]

'Francis Irving' wrote about 'Re: [pygame] Announce: SolarWolf Beta' - Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 11:58:35PM CEST
> On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 02:07:21PM -0700, Pete Shinners wrote:
> > > Is there a mirror?
> 
> Other things:
> - The .zip file is inconvinient under Unix.  The ^M at the end of each line
> (unless you unzip -a) meant I couldn't just run the .py file directly, as Linux
> reads the ^M on the first line as being part of the name of python.  Also, you
> have to chmod the .py file.  A tar.gz would be better.
> - I think it writes to a global directory, which means you can't easily
> installed the game in a shared place.  This is the perennial Unix game problem!
> 

I had no trouble with the .zip on my linuxbox and had no ^M problem either...
Not that I not prefer .tar.gz's ;-)

One more thing I did change the #! to #!/usr/bin/env python2
as I have both python and python2 installed. I think this is recommended
practice for any python2 script as python2 is not backwards compatible
(think += and friends).

Joost
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