Re: [pygame] Where to store the code for a project?

[Sam Bull]

On Tue, 2016-01-26 at 12:47 +0530, DiliupG wrote:
> no support for Python2.7?

I'm not sure what you're replying to... If you're talking about my
project, it has both a Python 2.x and Python 3.x release at the moment,
both of which are in the downloads on the main page.

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Re: [pygame] Where to store the code for a project?

[DiliupG]

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On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 4:36 PM, Sam Bull  wrote:

> On Sun, 2016-01-24 at 08:34 -0500, Ryan Westlund wrote:
> > I am looking at github but it's making me worry that whoever tries to
> > download my code will have to have git installed and know how to use
> > it in order to download and play my game. All I want is to upload a
> > free game that people can download and play easily.
>
> As others have said, you can have a download link on Github that
> doesn't require Git to use.
>
> Personally, I've been using Launchpad; one of the nice things about
> this is instead of throwing the code in the users face, there is a nice
> big download link on the project page, so it's more obvious and
> straightforward for a non-technical user to download your project.
>
> For example, one of my pygame project:
> https://launchpad.net/simplegc




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Re: [pygame] Where to store the code for a project?

[Sam Bull]

On Sun, 2016-01-24 at 08:34 -0500, Ryan Westlund wrote:
> I am looking at github but it's making me worry that whoever tries to
> download my code will have to have git installed and know how to use
> it in order to download and play my game. All I want is to upload a
> free game that people can download and play easily.

As others have said, you can have a download link on Github that
doesn't require Git to use.

Personally, I've been using Launchpad; one of the nice things about
this is instead of throwing the code in the users face, there is a nice
big download link on the project page, so it's more obvious and
straightforward for a non-technical user to download your project.

For example, one of my pygame project:
https://launchpad.net/simplegc

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Re: [pygame] Where to store the code for a project?

[Thomas Kluyver]

On 24 January 2016 at 13:34, Ryan Westlund  wrote:

> I am looking at github but it's making me worry that whoever tries to
> download my code will have to have git installed and know how to use it in
> order to download and play my game.


Every Github project gets automatic links like this to download the latest
version of the code, without having to use git at all:
https://github.com/takluyver/redsnail/archive/master.zip

You can also upload 'releases' of a project, e.g. if you want to create an
installer that bundles pygame with your application. Again, people don't
need to know git to use it.

I think the other major code hosting sites like Bitbucket and Gitlab have
similar features. Github is the most popular at present, though.

Thomas

Re: [pygame] Where to store the code for a project?

[Martti Kühne]

On Sun, Jan 24, 2016 at 2:34 PM, Ryan Westlund  wrote:
> I have a project I want to upload to pygame.org but it seems that there is
> no way to actually put the source code on the website; it must instead be
> somewhere else and pygame.org will only provide a link to it. I can't seem
> to find a suitable place to upload it. Can anyone point me to a place on the
> web where I can upload downloadable code projects that is free and does not
> require phone verification? I am looking at github but it's making me worry
> that whoever tries to download my code will have to have git installed and
> know how to use it in order to download and play my game. All I want is to
> upload a free game that people can download and play easily.

Is github an option for you? I don't know whether git sourcce control
fits your personal workflow, but it's definitely a place where you can
distribute your source code for free and with ease - they offer git
clone urls but they also let people download a zip file of the current
development state.

cheers!
mar77i