Packaging PyGame

2001-06-24 Thread Francis Irving
PyGame is a set of bindings for SDL, to make games development in Python easy. http://www.pygame.org/ PyGame has just reached version 1.1 is very stable, has an active community, and a good reception in the media. I've maintained Debian packages of it for six months, and they are very stable and

Sponsor for pygame

2001-02-10 Thread Francis Irving
I've packaged pygame, a set of SDL multimedia/games bindings for Python, and I am looking for a sponsor to upload it to the Debian archive. The ITP is bug #83446. The license is LGPL (not GPL), so the issues mentioned in the bug report don't apply. Description: SDL bindings for games development

Re: Python 2.x and GPL (official blurb form 2.1a1)

2001-01-25 Thread Francis Irving
On Fri, Jan 26, 2001 at 10:58:13AM +1100, Peter Eckersley wrote: > On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 11:01:17PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > So it seems that 2.1 will be GPL compatible :) > > Alas, not for certain ("We will also attempt to get the ownership > in previous versions transfered"). Unle

Re: debian-python: cvs module & cvs libraries.

2001-01-25 Thread Francis Irving
On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 06:22:51PM +1100, Brendan J Simon wrote: > I am writing a cross-platform cvs gui client using wxPython (a python > module to the wxWindows cross platform GUI framework). I would like to > use a cvs python module to implement the core cvs functionality but I > can't find

Re: Examples of making *.pyc files in postinst

2001-01-24 Thread Francis Irving
On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 09:34:58AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 11:27:47PM +0000, Francis Irving wrote: > > I can't find these examples anywhere! They aren't in that directory, > > in any package in the Debian archive. > Look in /var/lib/dp

Examples of making *.pyc files in postinst

2001-01-23 Thread Francis Irving
Hello! I'm looking for an example of how to correctly make and remove *.pyc and/or *.pyo files in postinst and prerm. There's a large thread about it in November, but the most practical advice says: "That is why most of us prefer to follow Gregor Hoffleit's method (see postinst and prerm samples