I'm pleased to announce the 0.6 alpha release of Lepton, a high-performance, pluggable particle engine and API for Python. Although it is still under development, a critical mass of features are completed and I think it is ready for wider consumption. Note that this is an alpha release, so expect the API to change somewhat in future releases. New features are also under development.
The engine is designed to be very flexible and does not rely on any other libraries directly. You can use it either with OpenGL (via pyglet or PyOpenGL), or with pygame by selecting the appropriate renderer. Examples are provided using pyglet and pygame. The project page is here: http://code.google.com/p/py-lepton/ You can also get it via pypi here: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/lepton/ One of the missing pieces right now is a native binary installer for Windows. It can be compiled using cygwin or MinGW, but we could use some help getting it working with MSVC. If anyone would like to contribute their Visual Studio expertise, it would be greatly appreciated. If you have questions or comments or would like to contribute, you can join our google group at: http://groups.google.com/group/py-lepton-users Enjoy. -Casey -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-announce-list Support the Python Software Foundation: http://www.python.org/psf/donations.html
