pygame community edition

[dev-clemons]

Pygame has now a fork pygame-ce which is more actively developed. An additional plus is that it also works in pyodide, so pgzero games could be executed within the browser.

Have there been any thoughts on this?

[ullmer]

Thanks much for this very promising idea! I'd be very interested in this prospect, and might be able to support if you, @lordmauve , or any others pursue this. (I've made multitouch & tangibles extensions to PyGame Zero, coded extensively in it, taught with it in dozens of classes, and have been promoting it as a possible core UI front-end within animist-os.org.) If any wish to discuss this more actively, there's a pgzero-development channel in this discord server which could be a locus for that.

[Mambouna]

I also prefer using pygame-ce over pygame when working with it directly. From my understanding of pgzero, backwards compatibility is very important though. I don't think pygame-ce has made breaking changes when compared to pygame, but this should probably be checked anyways.

[lordmauve]

I commented on this in Discord,

The problem is that Linux distros probably will not pick up the fork. I doubt pygame-ce in Debian? It should be possible to use either, but it's hard to represent that in Python metadata or convey it to distro maintainers and users.

It might be possible to define an extra like ce so we can pip install pyzero[ce] and get pygame-ce but I'm not sure if certain tools will complain (core metadata can do this, PEP-621 can't?)

However if I can get patches into pygame-ce specifically in service of pgzero features (like for pygame-community/pygame-ce#3336) I'd have no hesitation about switching over completely