[Sugar-devel] [Physics] New features

[Asaf Paris Mandoki]

On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 9:16 PM, Gary C Martin<gary at garycmartin.com> wrote:
> Hi Asaf,
>
> On 1 Sep 2009, at 02:03, Asaf Paris Mandoki wrote:
>
>>> I hope all that olpcgames/pygame wrapper stuff doesn't bite us too hard
>>> ;-)
>>
>> From Mike C. Fletcher's email it seems we may be better of without it.
>> I'm not quite sure what real advantage does it give us.
>
> I know what you mean –mental reminder I need to reply to his prompt email!.
> There's a heap of scary things going on in olpcgames I don't fully
> understand, and without knowing pygames well enough, I'm not too sure of all
> the fine points of how the wrapper is actually helping us, I'm sure it is
> helping in many... Could take us a while to untangle, but might well be
> worth it (at some point).
>
> OT: Mikes original intention was (I think) to provide a library so that you
> could include it to quickly wrap any old pygame developed code into (and
> under) basic Sugar activity code. It might be better just to create a
> clean/simple (as possible) pygame template Activity, that anyone can then
> clone and drop their pygame code into (like Tomeu template efforts for Gnash
> and Qt). The current case of including of multiple layers and wrappers gets
> pretty confusing trying to track down who is actually doing what.
>

This might be relevant:
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Development_Team/Project_Ideas#SugarGames_Pygame_wrapper

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I'll be paying attention to may neighborhood.

Greetings,
Asaf