Re: [pygame] Where to next?

[Andrew Straw <andrew.straw@adelaide.edu.au>]

> i've had many a long session trying to think what would push pygame to 
>  the next levels. pages and pages of notes are sitting around my desk. 
> in some ways there are some neat ideas, other ways i'm not so sure.
While I agree that "higher level" pygame would be great, I want to make 
the case for maintaining a great SDL wrapper in Python.  I'm sure we're 
not in danger of dumping SDL, but please keep "raw" SDL calls possible.

Also, with regards to the scene-graph idea: it sounds pretty cool and I 
think a great Python screne-graph would be killer.  However, I wonder 
if we want to re-invent the wheel, or if some other projects are 
already actively working on this goal.

Off the top of my head: Soya3D http://oomadness.tuxfamily.org/en/soya/ 
seems to be one promising attempt at a Python scene-graph.  (The GPL 
might discourage some, though.) Crystal Space apparently has 
(undocumented) Python bindings and is LGPL: 
http://crystal.sourceforge.net .  (And you mentioned COIN, which has a 
BSD-licensed binding called pivy: http://pivy.tammura.at/ ).  Most of 
this and more can be found at http://www.py3d.org .

So, my question is: how is your vision for pygame different than these 
libraries?