a quick response is that pygame can be compiled with various parts not included, so depending on who compiled pygame or the underlying sdl and how, it can be missing support for various pieces and file formats.
...however, in all official installers for windows and mac all optional components are built in, and furthermore on those platforms the installers include all binary dependencies. i.e. no features or file format support will be available or not depending on what the user has installed besides pygame (note I'm not saying python modules pygame interoperates with are installed though, i.e. you got to install PyOpenGL or numpy seperate) So basically I'm saying I can see there may be feature & file format support problems in what I would consider exceptional cases, most of which I would expect is Linux. I think it would be great to understand those cases better and possibly provide solutions for them (i.e. make sure the ports files install all the right stuff, fix a distro, etc.) so Terry (and others) please provide details on cases where a pygame feature doesn't seem to be included. -more below- On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 10:43 AM, Terry Hancock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm writing a tutorial for Python using PyGame, and one thing > that bothers me is that I'm not entirely certain that my PyGame > is a plain installation. > How did you install? > In fact, I'm pretty certain that I have some extras installed, > which makes me worry that some stuff that works for me may not > work for people reading the tutorial. > What OS are you using? what makes you think you have extras? > I've already made sure to use BMP files exclusively for images. > Why BMP files exclusively? what image files are you avoiding? Why are you avoiding them > But what about sound files? Does pygame.mixer.music *always* > support Ogg files? I know my installation does. > SDL_mixer can be built without ogg vorbis support - but I don't see why it would be. again, if there is a case where it is, it would be good to get that fixed. > Also, one person has complained about installation problems on > Fedora Core and also on OS X. Are there binary bundles that > work well on those platforms? I assume Windows is covered, > and I know the Debian installation "just works". > I don't know about Fedora, but it's my expectation that OS X prebuilt installer support for pygame 1.8 is sufficient for all needs. If there is any circumstance where that is not the case, please let the list know so it can be fixed. Also, OS X support for pygame 1.7 has been lacking in that a prebuilt python 2.5 installer was not available for a long period of time, which may be where that part of the complaint originated.
