[pygame] OS X distro...

[TheG <gareth.noyce@ukonline.co.uk>]

Hi,

Been playing around with the OS X distro. Excellent work Bob...

I've had a few probs tho, which are most likely purely down to me, but I 
thought I'd ask and get some clarification on these and other questions:

Era of Mages seems to *only* run if started from the terminal 
(/usr/local/bin/python as prescribed) -- attempts from the launcher just 
fail silently. Not sure why this is. Civil also seems to run happily, 
but again, the server will only run from the terminal ('cos it's a 
straight python app?). Do I take it that echoing err messages from the 
launcher is a "long way off"?

In addition, I note from your docs that you can't have two application 
windows running simultaneously. Is there any likely hood this will 
change in the future? I'm used to running two Civil clients 
simultaneously (for fun and profit!), and the quick attempts to do so 
this evening have failed as expected. It's not a problem as such, I have 
enough machines and we have an AI client, but it would be "very nice" 
for people like me... ;-)

Other than those two apps, pretty much everything else I've tried over 
the last couple of days has been fine, so I'm one happy,  grateful user! 
In fact, I can see this being excellent for the end user of Pygame apps, 
however, I have some small reservations about developing under it:

How  dangerous is it to run things from the terminal (as stated in the 
warning message echoed)? If it is dangerous, how else can I write code 
and get my error messages back? Is the window manager problem 
"intermittent" enough to require a warning to be on the safe side, 
without really causing that many problems?

Oh, and in case you're wondering, I'm running a G3 iMac, 10.1.2, 
Developer tools etc installed and yes, I'm a Mac newbie! ;-P

I notice that the SDL crowd have added your patches to the latest 
release (congrats). Here's hoping for more great things from Pygame and 
PygameOSX...

Thanks for all the hard work...

G

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