James, For academics and students, EPD is free. Moreover, it packages everything you'll probably need into one install. this is especially important to students who have little or no experience with computers.
The prebuilt binaries for the Mac don't work as they look for the python2.6 that comes with the mac. I'm not using that version, so the binaries don't install. I might give this a try: http://pygame.org/wiki/MacCompile If I can build up the nerve to: sudo rm /usr/local/lib/libpng.dylib sudo rm /usr/local/lib/libjpeg.dylib I find these instructions a bit scary. I think I can easy_install pyobjc. What about numeric? I have numpy installed. Is numeric really necessary? David. On Jan 7, 2010, at 10:32 AM, James Paige wrote: > On Thu, Jan 07, 2010 at 10:13:15AM -0800, David Arnold wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I've installed the latest EPD 6.0 on a Macbook Pro running Snow Leopard from >> www.enthought.com. I'd like to give pygame a try, but I am unsure as to how >> it should be installed on my environment. >> >> On www.pygame.org, I did see some installation instructions for Snow >> Leopard, but these depended on Macpython, a different distribution. >> >> Has anyone installed pygame in the Enthought distribution that could lend >> some advice? > > I had never heard of EPD before your mail... but I spent some time > reading their website, and I am a little bit suspicious of their > license. IANAL, but their licencing terms look like they might possibly > violate some of the licenses of the packages they are bundling inside > EPD. I could be wrong about this, I'm just saying that it smelled a tiny > bit fishy to me... > > Is there any special reason why you have to use EPD instead of some > other version of Python? > > This page of their FAQ > http://www.enthought.com/products/epdfaq.php#installlocation > says that on Mac, EPD installs python into > /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/<version> > > That leads me to believe that EPD's python is just an ordinary Python > framework install. Don't the regular Mac install packages on pygame.org > work with that? > > --- > James Paige
