Re: [pygame] Pygame and .png?

[Pete Shinners <pete@shinners.org>]

Jasper Phillips wrote:
> Ok.  It struck me as odd that load/save weren't symetrical, but I can see
> there's little incentive for you to add more save filetypes when they're so
> easily available elsewhere (although it would be nice to use just pygame).
The problem is with SDL_image. It only has image loaders. SDL has a 
builtin function to save BMP, and I've added code directly into Pygame 
for TGA. JPG and PNG would be great, but it requires adding a dependency 
directly into Pygame, which I usually try to stay away from.

There is talk on the SDL mailing list occasionally about adding save 
support to SDL_image. If that happens I'll support it immediately. 
SDL_image already links to libpng and libjpeg, that would be a great 
place to get it done.