Simple graphic library for beginners
bartc
bc at freeuk.com
Thu Jan 11 18:11:56 EST 2018
On 11/01/2018 22:32, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 12, 2018 at 9:21 AM, bartc <bc at freeuk.com> wrote:
>> As I understand it, pygame is just another add-on, which doesn't inherently
>> need to use .whl format, and which doesn't inherently need to use 'pip'
>> package installer. I even saw somewhere that you needed to use 'pip install
>> wheel' in order to use .whl.
>>
>> So there are two extraneous package systems to contend with, which
>> themselves need to be the correct versions, before it can even start
>> thinking about installing the product you really want.
> More FUD. Especially when you preface something with "I even saw
> somewhere". No reference, and it's not something from official
> documentation.
Why, you don't believe me? It was here:
http://www.pygame.org/download.shtml, the last comment under 1.9.3.
You're citing a potentially-outdated third-party
> document, and ignoring context (like "you need to 'pip install wheel'
> to take advantage of wheel caching" which is not nearly as bad as
> you're implying).
What have pip and wheels got to do with pygame? Nothing.
> You said yourself that when you used Python 3.6 (the latest stable
> release, at time of writing), everything just worked. Why are you
> still complaining?
I like exploring complexity, and the gratuitous use of it.
The subject is a Simple graphic library, for a language which is widely
regarded (erroneously IMO) as also being simple.
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bartc
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