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diff --git a/lib/pygame/readme.html b/lib/pygame/readme.html new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c993ec8 --- /dev/null +++ b/lib/pygame/readme.html @@ -0,0 +1,165 @@ +<html><head><!-- +Pygame Readme Information +--><title>Pygame Readme</title></head><body> + +<table width=100% border=1><tr><td colspan=3 align=center> +<font size=+5><b>Pygame Readme</b></font> +</td></tr><tr><td align=left width=33%><big> + +Version 1.9.1release + + +</td><td align=center width=34%><big> +Python Game Development<br> +originally by Pete Shinners, now an open source community project. </big> +</td><td align=right width=33%> +<a href=http://www.pygame.org>http://www.pygame.org</a><br> +<a href=mailto:pete@shinners.org>pete@shinners.org</a></p> +</td></tr></table></p><br> + + +<p><big><b><u>About</u></b></big><br><blockquote><p> +Pygame is a cross-platfrom library designed to make it easy to write +multimedia software, such as games, in Python. Pygame requires the +Python language and SDL multimedia library. It can also make use of +several other popular libraries. +</p></blockquote></p><br> + + + +<p><big><b><u>Installation</u></b></big><br><blockquote><p> +You should definitely begin by installing a binary package +for your system. The binary packages usually come with or +give the information needed for dependencies. Choose an +appropriate installer for your system and version of python +from the pygame downloads page. +<a href=http://www.pygame.org/download.shtml>http://www.pygame.org/download.shtml</a> +</p><p> +Installing from source is fairly automated. The most work will involve +compiling and installing all the pygame dependencies. Once that is done +run the "<u>setup.py</u>" script which will attempt to auto-configure, build, +and install pygame. +<p></p> +Much more information about installing and compiling is available in the +<a href=install.html>install.html</a> file. +</p></blockquote></p><br> + + + +<p><big><b><u>Help</u></b></big><br><blockquote><p> +If you are just getting started with pygame, you should be able +to get started fairly quickly. Pygame comes with many tutorials +and introductions. There is also full reference documentation for +the entire library. Browse the documentation from the documenantation +index. <a href=docs/index.html>docs/index.html</a>. +<p></p> +On the pygame website, there is also an online copy of this +documentation. You should know that the online documentation stays +up to date with the development version of pygame in svn. This may +be a bit newer than the version of pygame you are using. +<p></p> +Best of all the examples directory has many +playable small programs which can get started playing with the +code right away. +</p></blockquote></p><br> + + + + +<p><big><b><u>Credits</u></b></big><br><blockquote><p> +Thanks to everyone who has helped contribute to this library. +Special thanks are also in order. + +<li>Marcus Von Appen - many changes, and fixes, 1.7.1+ freebsd maintainer.</li> +<li>Lenard Lindstrom - the 1.8+ windows maintainer, many changes, and fixes.</li> +<li>Brian Fisher - for svn auto builder, bug tracker and many contributions.</li> +<li>Rene Dudfield - many changes, and fixes, 1.7+ release manager/maintainer.</li> +<li>Phil Hassey - for his work on the pygame.org website.</li> +<li>DR0ID for his work on the sprite module.</li> +<li>Richard Goedeken for his smoothscale function.</li> +<li>Ulf Ekström for his pixel perfect collision detection code.</li> +<li>Pete Shinners - orginal author.</li> + +<li>David Clark - for filling the right-hand-man position</li> +<li>Ed Boraas and Francis Irving - Debian packages</li> +<li>Maxim Sobolev - FreeBSD packaging</li> +<li>Bob Ippolito - MacOS and OS X porting (much work!)</li> +<li>Jan Ekhol, Ray Kelm, and Peter Nicolai - putting up +with my early design ideas</li> +<li>Nat Pryce for starting our unit tests</li> +<li>Dan Richter for documentation work</li> +<li>TheCorruptor for his incredible logos and graphics</li> +<li>Nicholas Dudfield - many test improvements.</li> +<li>Alex Folkner - for pygame-ctypes</li> + + +<li>Thanks to those sending in patches and fixes: Niki Spahiev, Gordon + Tyler, Nathaniel Pryce, Dave Wallace, John Popplewell, Michael Urman, + Andrew Straw, Michael Hudson, Ole Martin Bjoerndalen, Hervé Cauwelier, + James Mazer, Lalo Martins, Timothy Stranex, Chad Lester, Matthias + Spiller, Bo Jangeborg, Dmitry Borisov, Campbell Barton, Diego Essaya, + Eyal Lotem, Regis Desgroppes, Emmanuel Hainry, Randy Kaelber + Matthew L Daniel, Nirav Patel, Forrest Voight, Charlie Nolan, + Frankie Robertson, John Krukoff, Lorenz Quack, Nick Irvine, + Michael George, Saul Spatz, Thomas Ibbotson, Tom Rothamel, Evan Kroske, + Cambell Barton.</li> + +<li>And our bug hunters above and beyond: + Angus, Guillaume Proux, Frank Raiser, + Austin Henry, Kaweh Kazemi, Arturo Aldama, + Mike Mulcheck, Rene Dudfield, Michael Benfield, + David Lau</li> +</p><p> +There's many more folks out there who've submitted helpful ideas, +kept this project going, and basically made my life easer, Thanks! +</p><p> + Many thank you's for people making documentation comments, and adding to the + pygame.org wiki. +</p><p> + Also many thanks for people creating games and putting them on the + pygame.org website for others to learn from and enjoy. +</p><p> + Lots of thanks to James Paige for hosting the pygame bugzilla. +</p><p> +Also a big thanks to Roger Dingledine and the crew at SEUL.ORG +for our excellent hosting. +</p></blockquote></p><br> + + + + +<p><big><b><u>Dependencies</u></b></big><br><blockquote><p> +Pygame is obviously strongly dependent on SDL and Python. It also +links to and embeds several other smaller libraries. The font module +relies on SDL_tff, which is dependent on freetype. The mixer (and +mixer.music) modules depend on SDL_mixer. The image module depends +on SDL_image, which also can use libjpeg and libpng. The transform +module has an embedded version of SDL_rotozoom for its own rotozoom +function. The surfarray module requires the python Numeric package +for its multidimensional numeric arrays. +</p></blockquote></p><br> + + + +<p><big><b><u>Todo / Ideas</u></b></big> (feel free to submit)<br> +<a href="http://www.pygame.org/wiki/todo/">http://www.pygame.org/wiki/todo/</a> +</p><br> + + + + +<p><big><b><u>License</u></b></big><br><blockquote><p> +This library is distributed under GNU LGPL version 2.1, which can be +found in the file "doc/LGPL". I reserve the right to place future +versions of this library under a different license. +<a href=http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/lesser.html>http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/lesser.html</a> +</p><p> +This basically means you can use pygame in any project you want, but +if you make any changes or additions to pygame itself, those must be +released with a compatible license. (preferably submitted back to the +pygame project). Closed source and commercial games are fine. +</p><p> +The programs in the "<u>examples</u>" subdirectory are in the public domain. +</p></blockquote></p><br> + +</body></html> |