Simple graphic library for beginners

[bartc]

On 11/01/2018 22:32, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 12, 2018 at 9:21 AM, bartc <bc at freeuk.com> wrote:

>> As I understand it, pygame is just another add-on, which doesn't inherently
>> need to use .whl format, and which doesn't inherently need to use 'pip'
>> package installer. I even saw somewhere that you needed to use 'pip install
>> wheel' in order to use .whl.
>>
>> So there are two extraneous package systems to contend with, which
>> themselves need to be the correct versions, before it can even start
>> thinking about installing the product you really want.

> More FUD. Especially when you preface something with "I even saw
> somewhere". No reference, and it's not something from official
> documentation.

Why, you don't believe me? It was here: 
http://www.pygame.org/download.shtml, the last comment under 1.9.3.

  You're citing a potentially-outdated third-party
> document, and ignoring context (like "you need to 'pip install wheel'
> to take advantage of wheel caching" which is not nearly as bad as
> you're implying).

What have pip and wheels got to do with pygame? Nothing.

> You said yourself that when you used Python 3.6 (the latest stable
> release, at time of writing), everything just worked. Why are you
> still complaining?

I like exploring complexity, and the gratuitous use of it.

The subject is a Simple graphic library, for a language which is widely 
regarded (erroneously IMO) as also being simple.

-- 
bartc