Comments on: PyGame-Over?

By: Alastair

Alastair — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 04:46:10 +0000

Not sure if this is of any interest as an alternative? Should the need arise, of course.

By: Julian

Julian — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 02:33:18 +0000

And now, Pygame 1.8.1. They’re back!

By: John Y.

John Y. — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 05:27:18 +0000

Well, amazingly enough, Pygame 1.8 has arrived.

By: Arne Babenhauserheide

Arne Babenhauserheide — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 09:34:06 +0000

PyGlet code: http://www.ohloh.net/projects/9665/analyses/latest

By: Arne Babenhauserheide

Arne Babenhauserheide — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 08:34:07 +0000

If you want to see graphically what happens in PyGame you can take a look at the ohloh statistics, and you’ll see how much happened there:

http://www.ohloh.net/projects/3521/analyses/latest

One main difference I see is that PyGlet itself is written in Python.

When looking at the statistics, beware that more than half of the code if PyGlet is HTML.

Best wishes,
Arne

By: Julian

Julian — Thu, 17 May 2007 07:59:43 +0000

PyGame site has been edited again.

Instead of

edit: we needed an extra few weeks.

it now says

edit: we needed an extra few centuries.

By: Julian

Julian — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 23:29:38 +0000

Over 3 months have passed. Still no sign.

But PyGame 1.7 for Python 2.5 is working fine. Hooray!

By: Julian

Julian — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 20:49:53 +0000

Spacecoyote,

Re: Is Pygame a “windowing library”?

I suspect this comes down to an argument about definition of the term “Windowing Library”. I am using the term rather informally. If there is a formal definition that I am abusing, I apologise.

PyGame has more than the ability to open windows, display graphics and return the location of mouse-clicks, but that’s pretty much all I use it for in my (personal-use only) applications.

Re: Why don’t I help them out?

That’s a fair question.

In my defence, I quote Brooks’ Law: Adding people to a late project makes it later.

I think that’s particularly true when you add someone who hasn’t done any cross-platform C development for a long, long time, who doesn’t know the domain particularly well, and who hasn’t got that much time to commit.

If I have time for some Open Source development, then I would be more useful working on an update for EmailShroud.

By: Spacecoyote

Spacecoyote — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 19:53:08 +0000

Ummm…Pygame is not a windowing library.

And if you want it out sooner why don’t you help them out?

By: Iori Branford

Iori Branford — Sun, 04 Mar 2007 04:15:44 +0000

Hear that sound? It’s the odds that 1.7.1 will be the final version, punching a hole through the roof as they lift off into space. If by some miracle we do get 1.8, it’ll be 1.8 Final or I’ll eat this PC.

I could understand getting cold feet after looking at pyglet’s features, except pyglet isn’t even up for testing. Caving in to something that doesn’t even have a projected release date can only mean PyGame is done for a long long time, if not for good.