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Title: PyGame ported to Z?
Post by: yzord on May 14, 2004, 03:08:30 pm

Hello all
Just wanted to know if there\'s been any activity with porting the PyGame  (http://www.pygame.org)SDL modules over to the Z. Through the search mechanism, I see that there\'s been some effort by the Opie team to include pygame in opie, but unfortunately I could not find where it was or how to extract it for installation on QT.

I would love to try my hand at some cross platform software for the Z, and I feel that this would be a really good way of getting started.

Yz

Title: PyGame ported to Z?
Post by: Mickeyl on May 14, 2004, 03:42:06 pm

It as been added to OpenEmbedded and will be in feeds when we are in release mode.

Title: PyGame ported to Z?
Post by: yzord on May 17, 2004, 12:54:44 pm

Thanks for the update Mickeyl... You wouldn\'t happen to know when you\'re going to be release mode do you (not pushing, just asking)?

Thanks again,
Yz

Title: PyGame ported to Z?
Post by: Mickeyl on May 17, 2004, 01:04:00 pm

I\'d like to estimate, but frankly... I have no idea.

Since most of my begging for help in 2003 didn\'t have any effect, it took kergoth and me half a year to migrate all of OZ buildroot to OpenEmbedded.

Could take us the same time to do the device integration and testing phase, which now started. Could also be just a few weeks if we get help from more people. Hrw joined and is doing good work for collie, but we still need many more hands -- especially for maintaining packages. We now have over 700 packages in OpenEmbedded and less than 4 maintainers.

I\'m not sure how many packages one man or woman can handle, but once we release the first distribution built out of OpenEmbedded, I will definitly hand over the maintainer job for everything except a few packages which I feel committed to (Probably the 15 Python packages) to other people.