Availability of Target Platform

Deathworks on 2007/09/06 08:48 of Deathworks

Hi!

This is just a random thought that came to mind after seeing the result of testing.

I am wondering how many people there are who do not have the target platform available for testing/judging?

The rules say: "All entries must run in Python on the latest available libraries"

In the case of my program (not a game yet (T_T), that would be

Python 2.5.1 (?)
wxPython 2.8.4

Theoretically, I wouldn't need to worry about anything less than the target platform, but hearing that people have problems running the software because of what may be old libraries can be quite disheartening.

So, I am wondering how many people there are who are unable for any reasons to install/use the most current versions of the libraries (I suppose, most of the newbies have the latest versions, so this probably applies only for the more experienced participants).

Deathworks

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sigurdur on 2007/09/06 09:48:

On that point, in Ubuntu Linux and many other linux distros you can use the Software repositories to install libraries and software. There are many Python libraries available, at least in the Ubuntu repository, but not always the newest versions. I would expect that many newbies (incl. myself) use the repositories since it is much easier than install manually and therefore dont always have the latest versions installed.

allefant on 2007/09/06 10:22:

wxpython 2.8 will be impossible for Debian users, unfortunately.
But maybe it will be possible to run it with 2.6?

allefant on 2007/09/06 10:24:

Also, I was told in #pyweek that you shouldn't expect Python 2.5 for typical OSX users, and some linux distributions. So better to stick with only using 2.4 features in this pyweek.

Tee on 2007/09/06 12:30:

Personally, I first try testing pyweek games on Linux with python 2.4, then I boot to Windows, with python 2.5, and test those that didn't work. From my part you don't need to worry about it.

Like I said on a previous post, I'm still at Ubuntu Edgy. I don't like doing a complete upgrade because it always messes up my configurations and creates a few problems, but I guess I should do it some time in the future. I can't upgrade just the packages I want because usually there's a whole tree of dependencies. But I think anyone using Ubuntu Feisty shouldn't have a problem because python 2.5 and wxPython 2.8 are available at the repositories.