Re: [pygame] Promoting cheeseshop/pypi for game releases?

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Subject: Re: [pygame] Promoting cheeseshop/pypi for game releases?

From: René Dudfield <renesd@xxxxxxxxx>

Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2017 11:19:12 +0100

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Yeah, I think it's ok for quick and dirty distribution.

You're right that it fails as soon as you want other packages, a different version of python or to polish it nicely for wider distribution (start menu items, various icon sizes, screenshots, videos, different length description text, etc).

The idea of allowing people to gradually make the packaging good and polished is important.

Rather than requiring 20-30 questions, and lots of extra packaging work, a solution should allow people to roughly package to begin with but allow a path towards highly polished packaging.

A good name for this might be, Gradual Packaging.

On Sat, Feb 4, 2017 at 5:00 PM, Thomas Kluyver <takowl@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 4 February 2017 at 15:29, René Dudfield <renesd@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
@deshipu: mentioned another distribution method which is quite simple.
http://pygame.org/project-pyg.exe-2830-.html

Neat! I think this approach gets more fiddly as the project gains dependencies other than pygame, though.

Pynsist aims for a somewhat more polished installer that can set up things like start menu entries. But the layout of files it produces could pretty easily be used to make an 'unzip & execute' package as well.

Thomas