Re: [pygame] linux distributions

[Jan Ekholm <chakie@infa.abo.fi>]

On Tue, 22 May 2001, Pete Shinners wrote:

>> >PS: Great work on SolarWolf, by the way. One of the most all-around polished 
>> >free games available for Linux, in my humble opinion. You should do a binary 
>> >distribution with 'freeze', though. That is possible with pygame, isn't it?
>> 
>> Is it? I'd also be happy to discuss possible ways of distributing games.
>> As it is now I have no clue as how to do it "the Python way". I can whack
>> up a "make install" or a RPM for it, but I don't know how to do it on
>> Windows. All my tests with "freeze" or similar tools have led to either a
>> big pile of errormessages, something that just segmentation faults or
>> something that just does not work. This is something where Python as an
>> overall environment needs to be improved, I think.
>
>first off, let's all go back and enjoy that original quote :]

Yeah, SolarWolf *is* polished and fun. I hope you collect all the nice
comments you get about SW and read them again some rainy day when you're
feeling down. Should be able to cheer you up. :D

>i really don't know about building a standalone unix version of
>pygame apps. i do know gordon mcmillan has finally gotten some time
>to get back to his installer stuff, which previously supported linux.

I think I've tried it a while ago, but I think it didn't work for me.

>i was wondering if hacking together a "mini-python" along with the
>installation tools from loki would be a decent solution?

The tools from Loki seem to require some kind of toolkit named Gtk? I have
some *really* old version of Gtk on my machine as the old version of Gimp
I have  requires it. The Loki tool seems otherwise to be really nice, but
as far as I've read the docs it's more aimed towards CD installations, not
standalone single packages. It does seem to be the best one available so
far.

What options have you all used for packaging pygame games on Windows? 

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Jan 'Chakie' Ekholm |     Balrog New Media    http://www.balrog.fi/
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