Re: [pygame] Help configuring Pygame on OS X Leopard

[Casey Duncan <casey@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Dec 2, 2007, at 12:23 PM, Richard Jones wrote:

> On Sun, 2 Dec 2007, Casey Duncan wrote:
> > You can use fink (http://finkproject.org/) to install pygame with
> > python 2.5. It's also handy for installing other libraries you might
> > want (PIL, pyrex, ode, py2app, etc.).
>
> I would be wary of installing one of those parallel packaging  
> systems. I did
> so a number of years ago and ended up with a quite confused system.  
> I ended
> up reinstalling OS X to clear it up.

I'm not sure how it would hurt your system, it installs everything  
into it's own directory structure (under /sw by default). If you  
remove that directory, you remove all trace of it. Fink is very  
widely used and is a very convenient way to install OSS on OSX. It's  
never caused me any problems and I know several others who have used  
it without incident.

You can however, screw up your system by modifying the system python,  
which OSX uses in various places. So at the very least, you'll want  
to install your own python somewhere before setting up pygame.

-Casey