[pygame] Looking for a freebsd maintainer

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Subject: [pygame] Looking for a freebsd maintainer

From: René Dudfield <renesd@xxxxxxxxx>

Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2018 12:39:41 +0200

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Hello,

it seems there's a few issues installing pygame on freebsd from source... and there has been for years. The port was abandoned some years ago, and no one took it up. However, there's a bunch of people trying around the internet to use it and failing.

Here's the freebsd ports page for it:

https://www.freshports.org/devel/py-game/

I started a wiki page for freebsd compilation instructions here:

https://www.pygame.org/wiki/CompileFreebsd

Thanks to ndowens on GH for reporting, and helping get some fixes in.

https://github.com/pygame/pygame/issues/473

- portmidi doesn't work on freebsd

- video4linux doesn't seem to be there

So, if there's any freebsd users up for helping out with a port, it would be much appreciated.

cheers,