pygame_cffi 0.1.1

A cffi-based SDL wrapper that copies the pygame API.

# pygame_cffi

A cffi-based SDL wrapper that copies the pygame API.

We copy various code and API ideas from pygame, so we inherit pygame’s LGPL v2.1, or later license.

## Discussion

We have a Google Group: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/pygame-cffi. Any pygame-cffi discussion welcome!

## Installation

1. Install the requirements listed below. On a Debian-based system, all requirements can be installed using sudo apt-get build-dep pygame (pygame_cffi requires most of the pygame dependencies).

2. pip install pygame_cffi

## Requirements

• libjpeg-dev

• libpng-dev

• libsdl1.2-dev

• libsdl-image1.2-dev

• libsdl-mixer1.2-dev

• libsdl-ttf2.0-dev

## Local Development

1. Install dependencies (probably in a virtualenv)

2. Run cffi_builders/build.py

3. Hack

## Running Tests

• Upstream pygame unit tests: python -m test

• Conformance between pygame and pygame_cffi: See conformance/README

• pygame_cffi functionality example apps are in the demos directory