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Re: [pygame] SOC Proposal: Networking for Pygame

Hi, My name is Frode and I am another student with a proposal for SoC and a networking module.

Bryce Allen beat me to starting the discussion here, but it is already going well. I have some questions regarding the SDL events, and how a networking module would use these. Since there (afaik) isn't any standard network events a implementation would have to use USEREVENT or higher. Wouldn't this be a risk, both to existing code and to the networking code itself? The risk being events that are interpretted as being of a type, when its not, and thereby causing faulty data or attribute errors. Measures can be taken to protect the networking module, and since there isn't many games with network support yet the potential damage isn't that big so I guess it could be sacrificed, but it isn't a pretty solution.

Are there any other solutions?

Anyways, its getting way too late.. good luck with the proposal Bryce, and to all a good night!


Peter Shinners wrote:
On Sun, 2006-05-07 at 11:48 -0500, Bryce Allen wrote:
I'm a student interested in working on Pygame for Google's Summer of Code. I'm working on a proposal to add an event based networking framework to Pygame, inspired by this Wiki entry:

Just so you know, there are already two other pygame networking
proposals for Google's SoC. I think there may be another coming which
would give 4 candidates.

Of all the proposals I've seen, yours looks most detailed. This is good
because the others are vague on implementation. The other proposals all
include a little background about the experience of the student, which
would be good to add to yours.

One thing to be aware of is that the SDL event stack is limited to 256
elements. SDL is pretty poor at handling when the stack fills, so it may
not be easy to recover, especially in a networked environment.

I think something like this would be great. There just aren't many
Pygame projects out there with networking. Simple game concepts can be
new and exciting when rolled in with some simple networking. We need a
core of utilities to handle the chores of connection management.