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Re: [pygame] Distributing pygame games for non-Windows platforms



p p wrote:
> PyInstaller.
> PyInstaller is a program that converts (packages) Python programs into
> stand-alone executables, under Windows, Linux and Irix.

I'd like to register my vote for distributing source instead of this;
frequently someone who has developed for Windows has certain
Windows-isms in their code that I need to edit out in order to run
their program. And (at least with py2exe) I've seen a huge increase in
size from just pure source distributions.

Of course source availability is always a good thing for users (or at
worst a neutral thing). If you were going to package your game for
Linux using PyInstaller and also shipped a tarball of source, that
would be even better. On the other hand, business constraints may
prevent this.

Ethan

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