Re: debian packaging... Re: [pygame] mixer/sndarray voes

[Alexandre Quessy <alexandre@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Pygame users,
I have left this email unoticed until now. I now reply since there are
news in this regard. :)

2010/1/27 René Dudfield <renesd@xxxxxxxxx>:
> On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 4:01 AM, Olof Bjarnason
> <olof.bjarnason@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> 2010/1/27 René Dudfield <renesd@xxxxxxxxx>:
>> >
>> >
>> > On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 3:44 AM, Olof Bjarnason <olof.bjarnason@xxxxxxxxx>
>> > wrote:
>> >>
>> >> >
>> >> > For ubuntu you may have to compile from source, since they still haven't
>> >> > updated their package in time for ubuntu 9.10:
>> >> >     http://pygame.org/wiki/CompileUbuntu
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Um a little too much wrong-kind-of-work to be fun.
>> >>
>> >
>> > yeah... hehe.  Well luckily you can pretty much copy/paste these lines to
>> > install.  So not too hard :)
>>
>> Yeah, but the work with debugging such a "script" when it fails is
>> what is much work. Plus how it would severely mess up my system ;)
>>
>> What linux dists' are you guys using, to get more up-to-date developer
>> versions of python+pygame etc.?
>>
>> >
>> >
>> > #install dependencies
>> >
>> > sudo apt-get install python-dev libsdl-image1.2-dev libsdl-mixer1.2-dev
>> > libsdl-ttf2.0-dev libsdl1.2-dev libsmpeg-dev python-numpy subversion
>> > libportmidi-dev
>> >
>> >
>> > svn co svn://seul.org/svn/pygame/trunk pygame
>> >
>> > cd pygame
>> > python setup.py build
>> > sudo python setup.py install
>> >
>> >
>>
>>
>>
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>
>
> yeah, ok.  Messing up systems is not good.
>
> I wonder if you can just install the Lucid .deb file... I reckon you
> might be able to.  I guess it would be good to set up a PPA, or maybe
> even compile debs for people to download.  Alexandre has talked about
> becoming the debian maintainer for pygame... so that would be good...
> hopefully it will get updated more quickly in the future.
>
> Alexandre: do you feel like uploading a pygame 1.9.1 .deb for karmic
> somewhere?  Or perhaps setting up a ppa?  Or are you still interested
> in being the debian maintainer?  How is that process going?  It looks
> like Sebastien Bacher uploaded the most recent pygame package for
> ubuntu on the 14th of Jan.
>

Since that time, the MOTU developers in Ubuntu have packaged it for
Lucid. I just uploaded a package for Debian sid, and someone should
upload it for me to the archives soon. The bugtracker issue is
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=544347

Hopefully, I'll announce it has been updated in Debian this week. :)

>
> Marcus uses freebsd.  Lennard uses ubuntu now I think...  Not sure
> what other people are using.  The funny thing is I'm using ubuntu -
> which has been the slowest distro to update pygame.  For me, I compile
> things I work on from source... but often use the system libraries
> unless I'm testing or developing them.  But I dunno... everyone has
> their own needs/uses and so different distros are good for them.
>
>
>
> cya
>



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