Re: [pygame] Re: Playing with Flatpak packaging

[jcupitt@xxxxxxxxx]

Flatpak is a linux-only thing, it's way of putting desktop programs
into sandboxes that can be safely run without needing to be installed
and with no danger they could mess up the rest of your system.

I think the Windows equivalent is UWP apps. They also run in a sandbox
and are "containerized" in a way that traditional Windows programs are
not.

In a very similar way to this effort, someone would need to make a
base UWP app for python2.7 and pygame, then game developers could just
drop their assets in to make something they could distribute.

John




On 7 March 2017 at 07:06, DiliupG <diliupg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> a python 27 version for windows would be GREATLY appreciated unless you
> consider python 27 users redundant and windows, not a real os.
> :(
>
>
> On 7 March 2017 at 02:28, Luke Paireepinart <rabidpoobear@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> Would be great to try this on my pyweek entry if you're looking for games
>> to test, just let me know how it turns out. It's called solar flair, but was
>> developed with python 2.7 on Windows. I'm not sure on the compatibility with
>> 3.x. - https://github.com/lukevp/pyweek23
>>
>>
>> On Mar 6, 2017 12:11 PM, "Thomas Kluyver" <takowl@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> I developed this a bit further, though there's still more I hope to do
>> with it.
>>
>> It turns out that building a custom runtime is discouraged; the better way
>> to support game developers is to build a 'base app', which people can then
>> add their own game files to. I have prepared two different base apps: one
>> includes Python 3.6, and makes a download of about 30 MiB. The other uses
>> Python 3.4 from the shared runtime, so is a download of about 7 MiB. My idea
>> is that the game developer can choose between the latest language features
>> and a quicker installation.
>>
>> My next step is to make a more complete example of using this to package a
>> game (so far, I've tested with the 'aliens' example that ships with pygame).
>> I might try with the solarwolf example on Pygame's Github org - or if anyone
>> wants to suggest another suitable open-source game based on pygame, I could
>> try with that.
>>
>> Thomas
>>
>> On 26 February 2017 at 19:47, Thomas Kluyver <takowl@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>> I spent a while today playing with Flatpak, a new system for packaging
>>> sandboxed applications on Linux. The result is an example that can build and
>>> install Pygame's Aliens example game:
>>>
>>> https://github.com/takluyver/pygame-flatpak-test
>>>
>>> If you're running Fedora 24+, Ubuntu 16.10 (might need a PPA?) Debian
>>> testing/unstable or Arch, you can install Flatpak and try it out.
>>>
>>> This is quite rough at the moment, but I think it has good potential for
>>> distributing games to Linux users in the future. It looks like [1] Flatpak
>>> is on its way to becoming the default cross-distro app distribution
>>> mechanism for desktop Linux.
>>>
>>> The big improvement I'd like to make is building a dedicated Flatpak
>>> 'runtime' for pygame, including a newer version of Python - the base runtime
>>> I'm using at present has Python 3.4.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Thomas
>>>
>>> [1]
>>> https://kamikazow.wordpress.com/2017/02/09/adoption-of-flatpak-vs-snap/
>>
>>
>>
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