Re: [pygame] TMX support in pygame

[Santiago Romero <sromero@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Maybe something like pygame-extras-vX.X (including TMX support and other possible interesting features that other high-level libraries have) that matches exactly (and is totally compatible) the pygame-vX.X would be fine.

This way people that only wants the "core libraries" could just install pygame. And people that wants the "extras" can install the other package among with the core. 

That would be different from packing it as a "pygame 3rd party library" (like those that you can download from pygame.org) because it will appear in the main download page and they will be packages in the APT/YUM repositories of the distros, meaning that they are the "default libraries" for diverse tasks (TMX maps, scenes, X feature, Y support, Z, etc)...

Best regards!

On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 7:51 PM, Sam Bull <sam.hacking@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

On mer, 2014-10-01 at 16:30 -0500, Leif Theden wrote:
> Bart,  The modules I've proposed are pure python won't need to be
> compiled, or even required for pygame to function.

I don't think this is something that is general enough to be used in the
majority of games developed with Pygame. For that reason I would opt to
not bloating Pygame with lots of other modules for more specific use
cases.

However, I do think we could do with an area on the website to advertise
3rd party pygame libraries. It already has user projects, so maybe just
have a specific tag/category for libraries, then clearly advertising a
page that lists these from the home page.

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Santiago Romero
http://www.sromero.org