Re: [pygame] pgreloaded on Mac OS X | Introduction email

[René Dudfield <renesd@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Vicent,

sounds like you're already hopping into it!

Since you're already sending in code... I'll try and get you commit
svn access soonest!  Can you please send me the username you'd like to
use?

Also, do you have a blog for updates on your project?



cheers,




Pasted again from another email about preparations for gsoc... in case
you missed it.
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To start preparing for your work, here's a few things you can do...

- make sure you can compile pygame.
    -  see the wiki for instructions for your platform(s)
        - http://pygame.org/wiki/Compilation
    - as pygame is multi platform, you'll have to work on multiplatforms too.
        - prepare a separate platform to work on if you can.  Like
setting up linux if you don't have it already.
            - not entirely necessary, but it'd make things easier for yourself.

- set up your blog, which you'll be writing about your project as you go.
    - mark related posts with tags pygame, python, gsoc2009
    - add your blog to this wiki page:
        - http://www.pygame.org/wiki/rsslinks
    - email the pygame mailing list about your blog (once you have at
least one related post).
    - email the soc2009-general with your blog details, and ask them
to list your blog on soc.python.org.
    - if you don't have a blog already, you can set up a free one with
blogspot.com or wordpress.com.

- prepare a reading list.
    - start looking at some related materials to read.
        - like for ffmpeg, read through some of the development
mailing list, and development docs etc.
    - if you haven't used svn before much, read some of the svn book.

- svn commit access.
    - I'll have this arranged.
    - first, post a patch to some small change to the mailing list,
with svn diff > your-patch.diff







On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 9:49 PM, Vicent Marti <tanoku@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello everybody,
>
> let me start by shortly introducing myself. My name is Vicent Marti
> and I'm one of the students which will be working on PyGame this year,
> as part of Google's Summer of Code program. I'll be improving the
> font/text drawing support on the pgreloaded branch of PyGame, and
> ultimately backporting some of these improvements to PyGame itself.
> You'll find me on #pygame most of the time under my nick 'tanoku'.
>
> Anyway, sorry for the delay on this introduction email; I hate writing
> these kind of emails (heh) but now I have a perfect excuse to do so:
>
> I'd like to announce that I've just rewritten most of the build system
> of pgreloaded, and that these changes can already be found on the SVN
> server: the new version is much more modular (and more awesome if I
> may say so) and most importantly, it actually works and builds cleanly
> under Mac OS X. I thought I'd let you know, for all the Mac users out
> there, given that the branch didn't previously support this OS.
>
> Also, although we've done some testing of the new build system with
> our current configurations, it's very likely that we've missed
> something. We'd really appreciate if you could update your local SVN
> copies of the branch and report any issues or regressions you may
> encounter when building it.
>
> ...Oh, and if you still haven't checked out the branch, this would be
> a great moment to do so. Marcus is preparing an alpha release (which
> is also going to be awesome) and you'll probably find that the branch
> is going to get many exciting new features really soon (if anything,
> great support for drawing text and handling many font formats will be
> there :) ).
>
> Thanks for your time, I'll keep you all updated with any important
> changes when possible.
>
> Cheers,
> Vicent Martí
>