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From: Ned Deily <nad@acm.org>
Subject: Re: Installing PyGame?
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2014 19:38:09 -0700
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In article <brtt0jF10jjU1@mid.individual.net>,
 Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
> My advice would be to steer clear of things like Fink and MacPorts
> and do things the native MacOSX way wherever possible. That means
> using a framework installation of Python and framework versions of
> the various libraries that PyGame uses.

FYI, MacPorts Pythons are framework installations.  And 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

-- 
 Ned Deily,
 nad@acm.org