ANN: pymunk 1.0.0 (a 2d physics lib)

[Victor Blomqvist]

Hi everyone,

Im glad to announce that pymunk 1.0.0 have been released, a library
wrapping the 2d physics engine Chipmunk.

You can find it here: http://code.google.com/p/pymunk/

What is pymunk?
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pymunk is a easy-to-use pythonic 2d physics library that can be used
whenever you need 2d rigid body physics from Python. It is built on top of
the very nice 2d physics library Chipmunk,
http://code.google.com/p/chipmunk-physics/

Its purpose can be summarized as:
"Make 2d physics easy to include in your game"

It is (or striving to be):

    * Easy to use - It should be easy to use, no complicated stuff should be

      needed to add physics to your game/program.
    * "Pythonic" - It should not be visible that a c-library (chipmunk) is
      in the bottom, it should feel like a python library (no strange
      naming, OO, no memory handling and more)
    * Simple to build & install - You shouldnt need to have a zillion of
      libraries installed to make it install, or do a lot of command line
      trixs.
    * Multiplatform - Should work on both windows, nix and OSX.
    * Non-intrusive - It should not put restrictions on how you structure
      your program and not force you to use a special game loop, it should
      be possible to use with other libraries like pygame and pyglet.

I hope and believe that with the latest release (1.0.0) these points are
mostly fulfilled and visible if you use pymunk.

Its licensed under the MIT license just as Chipmunk, so everyone should be
able to use it.

What is new?
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With this release pymunk has most features I wanted, follows the latest
chipmunk version, has quite good api documentation and is fairly well tested

and hopefully quite stable. As such I think it's about time the version is
bumped to 1.0.0.

As this version is updated to include the new features in chipmunk, and also

contain at least one breaking change it is not unlikely that it will break
your code. On the other hand, now it has the newest callback system (see
Space.add_collision_handler), new joints and other cool stuff that will make

it easier and more fun to include 2d physics into your program/game :)

Changes from the last release:

    * Vec2d now uses radians instead of degrees for all default angle
      functions. This might break existing code!
    * Upgraded to latest chipmunk. This means new system of callbacks and
      many other fixes
    * Many unittests added.
    * Better py3k compatibility (everything except for the setup script
      should work)
    * Better 32/64 bit handling
    * and more


/Victor - the main pymunk developer