Re: [pygame] BUG: required modules not raising error when failing to import was Re: [pygame] Surfarray.array_alpha() bugfix, py2exe/py2app segfault

[Brian Fisher <brian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I thinks it's very important that packaging tools work out of the box with pygame and have no mysterious failures. If it takes a hack, it takes a hack. If there are alternatives to the hack, they should be used. But not solving the problem is not an alternative.

On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 10:26 AM, <mva@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Lenard Lindstrom <len-l@xxxxxxxxx>:

[Hacks for broken py2exe/py2app]

Does it make sense, that we touch the whole module initialisation
process, because some third party build scripts do not do their
job right?

Personally I'd vote for some py2exe template that includes all
important pygame modules. This can be used by anyone then without
the need to pollute the whole application namespace with the pygame
modules.

Regards
Marcus