A poster had asserted earlier on the list that OS X installation binaries for pygame are lacking - I believe that the poster was misled by an inaccurate comment on the downloads page (
http://pygame.org/download.shtml):
"
pyobjc is needed for OSX 10.3 and 10.4, not 10.5"
I think the rationale for the comment on the download page was that the system python (2.5) on Mac OS X has PyObjC 2.0 preinstalled - however as the pygame installers target the user-installed framework builds of python, there is no PyObjC available for pygame to use, if the user has not installed one.
So in fact, pyobjc is required for all os x revisions for pygame, and I believe the pyObjC installer on the pygame download page will suffice for all 3 revisions as well.
So if the web page could be clarified, that would be great - but mostly I wanted it to be clear what the expectation of the current Mac OS X support for pygame is, so if people have a different experience or require something different than what is provided, they can report it.
On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 4:09 PM, Brian Fisher
<brian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I'm curious, In what way is Pygame currently sorely lacking in OS X installation binaries?
What would you like to be different about the binaries here:
http://pygame.org/download.shtml
The reason I ask is cause for me they all work perfectly fine, and if there was a problem I'd like to help fix it.
On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 3:42 PM, Python Nutter
<pythonnutter@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
solution. Pygame just has been sorely lacking in the OS X installation
binaries department and I don't want to send users through installing
a DVD worth of developer tools and compiling their own Pygame and
dependencies just so they can play my game.