[pygame] Soc: Pygame on ctypes

[Alex Holkner <aholkner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

There was some talk on the list earlier this year about rewriting Pygame 
to use ctypes.  I've been thinking about applying to do this for Soc 
2006.  There's a little more info on the why and what at 
http://wiki.python.org/moin/CodingProjectIdeas/PygameOnCtypes.

My approach would be to wrap SDL with ctypes, then reimplement the 
Pygame API in pure python as much as possible.  For the parts of Pygame 
that are not simple wrappers around SDL functions, these would be 
initially implemented in straight python, then later (if needed) written 
again as an external c module also wrapped with ctypes.

I already have a hacked-up ctypes wrapper around SDL (though needs much 
improvement).  It's unlikely I'd be able to reimplement all of Pygame 
within the Soc period, so I'd focus on the video, surface and event 
modules first.

I would like to know firstly if anyone else is already doing, or 
thinking of doing this, so I don't step on your toes.  Also, some 
collaboration with Simon's networking project would obviously be 
useful.  Any other thoughts?

Alex.