Re: [pygame] Adding functions to library

[Luke Paireepinart <rabidpoobear@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Chris and Rene for the links.  Since there's pre-existing
cython code and I'd like to get more experience using it, I think I'll
try that route first.

On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 2:41 PM, René Dudfield <renesd@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 9:19 PM, Christopher Arndt <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>>
>> On 16.11.2011 17:39, Luke Paireepinart wrote:
>>>
>>> Quick question, are there any cython extensions in pygame currently?
>>> or ctypes?  or is it purely C?  If so, what wrapper is used?
>>
>> The pyportmidi binding for portmidi, which is wrapped by pygame.midi is
>> written in Cython. The source file is here:
>>
>> https://bitbucket.org/pygame/pygame/src/dd6752f761be/src/pypm.pyx
>>
>> Chris
>>
>
>
> Hi,
>
> yeah, as Chris says, there is one cython module.  Most modules are written
> using C.  The plan was to eventually move that code out into separate
> libraries... but I don't know if that will happen.  But keeping the C code
> separate might be 'cleaner'.
>
> If you're going to spend time optimizing C code and maybe assembly, consider
> using liborc.  Since then you can generate assembly automatically, and C
> code.  It's kind of nice looking for array based code:
> http://code.entropywave.com/documentation/orc/orc-tutorial.html
>
> But yeah, I don't see a problem with new cython modules if you prefer to do
> it that way.
>
> I can offer help if you run into any problems which ever way you do it.
>
>
> cheers,
>