Re: [pygame] py2exe on fonty.py fails with segfault

[Bob Ippolito <bob@redivi.com>]

On Jan 11, 2004, at 2:35 PM, Bob Ippolito wrote:

> On Jan 10, 2004, at 6:54 PM, Bob Ippolito wrote:
>
> > On Jan 10, 2004, at 6:40 PM, Pete Shinners wrote:
> >
> > > Bob Ippolito wrote:
> > > > Pete, what do you think about coming up with a smarter scheme for 
> > > > resource acquisition?
> > > > I have not done any research to see if a module like this already 
> > > > exists.
> > > I haven't seen anything directly like this. I believe the new 
> > > "import hook" stuff that allows zipfiles had something like this, to 
> > > help locating files near the imported sources. Well I heard talk of 
> > > that anyways.
> > >
> > > If anything I'd take some python code that tried a few "smart" 
> > > guesses for finding a data file. Just some special cases and 
> > > whatnot. If anyone knows of anything better, I'd probably just roll 
> > > it directly into the pygame source if possible.
> > The "standard module" approach seems preferable to me because that 
> > the packaging software (be it bundlebuilder, py2exe, etc) can make 
> > one or two function calls and then any software that needs data files 
> > (so long as they use the same module) would be able to find them.  If 
> > the code was in pygame, then packaging software would need code 
> > specific to pygame.
> >
> > I'll figure out whether something like this already exists by Tuesday 
> > or so.. if not I'll draft something up.  I'm sure it was discussed 
> > when import hooks were added, but I don't know if an implementation 
> > is floating around.
> There is an existing implementation of something called 
> ResourcePackage by Mike Fletcher, see:
> 	http://sourceforge.net/projects/resourcepackage/
> 	http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2003-January/032127.html
>
> I haven't tried it yet so I don't know if it's quite suitable as-is.
Ok, I've looked at it.  I'm not sure it's the most desirable solution 
for several reasons:
	(1) it embeds data inside the code (uses more memory, modules don't 
really get unloaded)
	(2) the data is only available as a string (either needs to spit out 
temp files or pygame needs to be refactored to take file-like-objects 
or strings for ttf, etc)

-bob

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