[OLPC-Games] Advisory: Require explicit imports of OLPCGames sub-modules

[Samuel Klein]

Thanks for the update.  I for one would be glad to see the GTK wrapper
drop away.  SJ

On Dec 22, 2007 9:31 PM, Mike C. Fletcher <mcfletch at vrplumber.com> wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
>
> I'm looking at how to clean up the OLPCGames code base so that it's
> easily maintained and more flexible.  I particularly want to get to the
> point where our functionality is not all tied to the embed-pygame-in-GTK
> approach and we don't pull in every major GTK/Pango/Cairo library for
> every single Pygame game (egads!).  At the moment it looks like we will
> be stuck with at least GObject to get activity-level interactions (e.g.
> notification of "activation" and the like) (a pain because GObject takes
> a very long time to load and isn't really doing much for us), but I'd
> like to make pretty much everything else optional.
>
> To that end, I'm planning on requiring explicit importing of OLPCGames
> sub-modules (and likely module.init() operations for a few of them).
> That is, if you are currently just doing:
>
>     import olpcgames
>     olpcgames.pangofont.install()
>
> your code would need to become:
>
>     from olpcgames import pangofont
>     pangofont.install()
>
> or
>
>     import olpcgames.pangofont
>     olpcgames.pangofont.install()
>
> (same for mesh, activity, and camera).
>
> I'm guessing most activities have been using explicit imports anyway.
> If you haven't, please update your code base to use them, as the next
> release of OLPCGames likely will require them.
>
> Don't get too excited about the elimination of the GTK wrapper.  At the
> moment I don't have a good plan for that.  Pippy is just forcing the
> screen to be full-size, which won't work for size-constrained games.  We
> also, AFAIK don't have any hardware support anyway, so we're not going
> to get a lot of benefit other than memory and load-time speed out of
> dropping the GTK wrapper (assuming it's even doable with Pygame (the
> X-windows stuff looks like it'll be a pain when we're working through
> Pygame)).
>
> Anyway, enjoy yourselves,
> Mike
>
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