Re: [pygame] installing Pygame for Mac OS X standard Python

[Joe Strout <joe@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Nov 28, 2008, at 5:28 PM, Joe Strout wrote:

> > Reading http://www.pygame.org/download.shtml
> > No local packages or download links found for pygame==1.8.0rc3
> > error: Could not find suitable distribution for  
> > Requirement.parse('pygame==1.8.0rc3')
>
> There seem to be two errors here, the "Couldn't find index page" one  
> and then the last one, which apparently was fatal, as no further  
> output appeared after that.
>
> Anybody have a clue what these errors mean, and what I can do about  
> it?

My own google-fu has turned up a clue, but only a clue:
<http://mail.python.org/pipermail/distutils-sig/2008-January/ 
008594.html>
...which seems to suggest that this somewhat cryptic error actually  
means that we have an incompatible version of Python.

But my Python is 2.5.1, i386, and this sure looks like what the  
install script expects (e.g. "Processing pygame-1.8.0rc3-py2.5- 
macosx-10.5-i386.egg").  Also, <http://pygame.org/wiki/MacCompile>  
says this was "tested with the latest python2.5 framework (included  
with OSX 10.5 Leopard)".  I don't think this actually IS the latest  
version of Python 2.5, but it certainly is what's included with 10.5.   
So it seems like this should work.

Curiously, when I launch Python now and "import pygame," it appears to  
work -- or at least, no errors appear at that point.  So could it be  
that the apparent fatal error above is not an error at all?

I'm going to go ahead and start poking at pygame via the tutorials,  
but I'm very concerned that something is awry, so any insight on this  
installation glitch would be much appreciated.

Best,
- Joe