Ondrej Certik wrote: > On Dec 11, 2007 5:20 PM, Ondrej Certik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Dec 11, 2007 9:26 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> This seems to be similar to SDL (which has a python wrapper: pygame). >>> I am worried about yet another "multimedia framework". We should have >>> less of those instead of more. >> I think you can just do 2D things easily in pygame. Pyglet is for both >> 2D and 3D things. It's a pure python, no difficult compilation of >> modules. Also I think more choices are better rather than less >> choices. > > See also this post why pyglet is better than pygame: > > http://aroberge.blogspot.com/2007/08/pyglet-and-pygame-which-one.html
I haven't had a mac for a bit, but when I did, I found the something-like-2-line patch to make pygame work on a mac. It's pretty trivial (there are I think two places with font calls that need to have slightly different parameters). With that minor change, pygame worked great on the mac. I haven't looked at it very much since the beginning of the year, though. Also, you can use opengl with pygame. I know there's been huge discussions on the mailing list about using opengl python bindings instead of the SDL 2d built-in capabilities. On the side, I've been helping develop a pygame game and I looked at using opengl instead of SDL. I thought that pygame was a pretty nice framework. That said, pygame seems pretty stagnant. They've been advertising the next release for a long time (I think 1.8 was originally due last December). The current release was done in 2005 and their last commit to the subversion repository seems like it was several months ago. Last year I emailed the developers about the issue with a mac and I thought they applied the patch, but I don't know, maybe not. I don't know anything about pyglet, so I can't compare the two frameworks very well. In looking through some pyglet examples, though, it seems like pygame is a more comprehensive framework. -Jason --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://sage.scipy.org/sage/ and http://modular.math.washington.edu/sage/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
