easy_installable pygames

phoe6 on 2011/03/30 16:10

I was trying to find out some games which would can be easy_installed in my virtualenv. Hard to find many. Why is it so? 

If you have any lists for me to try, please share. It would be good idea to try those myraid libraries and dependencies in virtualenv instead of installing it on system python.

Also, glancing through this forum, I sense that this time around, the final game output should be in a format which can be uploaded to pypi. (hopefully this will give more easy_installable games for the next pyweek).
 
 

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illume on 2011/03/30 16:57:

Hey,

yeah... here is one:
http://code.google.com/p/zanthor/

If you have any questions about how it works, please let me know.

cya!

tartley on 2011/03/30 18:27:

I've often wondered what it would take to provide a skellington with a setup.py, with some (commented out) lines to include pyglet or pygame dependencies. It would be great if everyone had a simple 'make binary upload' command which produced and uploaded py2exe and py2app and <linux equivalent> binaries, right from day one.

richard on 2011/03/30 23:56:

phoe6: I'm not getting the same easy_install vibe from the discussions here. Was there anything in particular that spurred this thought?

Making a game in a week is hard. The Skellington makes it a little easier to make a game that's more obvious to run. Having it additionally produce something that's uploadable to pypi would be very nice. Activate power of: tartley :-)
 

richard on 2011/03/30 23:57:

Just to clarify

s/Making a game in a week is hard/Making a game in a week is challenging enough for some people/

:-)

mauve on 2011/03/31 08:33:

Is that... perl?

illume on 2011/03/31 09:36:

The existing Skellington is quite floored imho.  We should be showing people how to create games as python packages, and packaging software like all other software outside of python work (eg, configure make, installers, etc).

Things in Skellington like a lib directory and sys.path hacks have a terrible smell.

richard on 2011/03/31 11:07:

Feel free to offer something superior illume :-) I created the Skellington so that entries were at least runnable by others :-)

phoe6 on 2011/03/31 11:49:

@richard - I feel that virtualenv can be used for many trial and error kind of setups. Many a times pyweek games, we want to install in a temp location, give a try and see if it suits our tastes etc. This is much easier than looking for source, downloading them one-by-one and trying. 

Just that the convenience which virtualevn and easy_install offers for try-out-thing before settling was the idea which prompted me to look for easy_installable pygames.
 

adrwen on 2011/03/31 14:48:

@tartley I can't think of any Linux that doesn't come with python preinstalled, so I don't think anyone ever bothered to make an ELF version of py2exe. The only real remedy is to run "chmod +x ./*/*py" or something like that.

illume on 2011/04/01 08:09:

The main binary packager for linux is cx_freeze http://cx-freeze.sourceforge.net/

Hugoagogo on 2011/04/01 11:41:

I have usualy used
http://code.google.com/p/gui2exe/
even if most people seem to have a problem with me using a gui to compile my programs