Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!news-1.dfn.de!news.dfn.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Gregory Ewing Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Subject: Re: Installing PyGame? Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2014 11:42:33 +1200 Lines: 26 Message-ID: References: <5c069831-8cab-43da-a4f9-ccec68cdc101@googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net ilt5WWfK9auPyuL4SwymmQeEcDT2Ymcje5uFr82is7ricFUf1S Cancel-Lock: sha1:Fi6zg6XXey5h02l/KYUuOC2/at8= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.5 (Macintosh/20050711) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:70617 Ned Deily wrote: > I disagree that > installing a bunch of disparate software from various sources via binary > installers and/or source is to be preferred to a modern third-party > package manager on OS X like MacPorts or Homebrew. That's just setting > yourself up for a long-term maintenance headache. What could be easier > than: > > sudo port install py27-game That's fine if it works, but the OP said he'd already tried various things like that and they *didn't* work for him. And I've had trouble in the past with MacPorts and/or Fink (can't remember exactly which one it was) installing libraries that were incompatible with other things I use and messing them up, so I've learned to be wary of them. Those problems were probably due to some unusual features of my setup, and wouldn't occur for most other people. But because I don't use those tools, I can't give any recommendations about how to troubleshoot them. All I can do is explain what works for me. -- Greg