Re: [pygame] pygame from OS X command line

[Bob Ippolito <bob@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Aug 4, 2005, at 7:07 AM, Ben Willmore wrote:

> > > It should work just fine without any of this.  The only factor  
> > > that I can point to is fink.  If you stop using fink, your  
> > > problems will probably disappear.  The normal Python 2.4.1  
> > > distribution has no problems at all with pygame CVS on any of the  
> > > machines I've tried it on.
>
> I can certainly believe this is fink's problem -- but it would be  
> nice if pygame and fink-python would work together :-)

Well, that's up to you...  I couldn't care less about fink.  I use  
DarwinPorts when I use misc. unix stuff, but it doesn't go anywhere  
near my Python code.

> > packager_imports() is never executed, and exists purely to  
> > generate bytecode that py2exe and py2app will want to see.   
> > Changing it is doing them a disservice, and not helping you any.   
> > I'm not sure why you felt the need to touch this.
>
> Naivety -- it was the only place i could find pygame.macosx mentioned.
>
> OK, one last question:  when _should_ macosx.init() get called?  
> I.E. When does it get called in normal python?

It gets called exactly once (from C code, see src/base.c) before  
initialization of any the video subsystem.

-bob