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MyASPN >> Mail Archive >> pygame-users
pygame-users
Re: [pygame] ideas for renaming pygame-ctypes
by Tim Ansell other posts by this author
Aug 24 2006 5:57AM messages near this date
Re: [pygame] ideas for renaming pygame-ctypes | [pygame] ogre + pygame: how do I get them to share a window?
I registered pystol.info just in case you want the name (and to stop any
squatters from getting all the names).

Pystol.net/Pystol.org are still free as well.

Anyway...

Tim Ansell

On Thu, 2006-08-24 at 22:14 +0930, Tim Ansell wrote:
>  > current pygame-ctypes SDL-wrapping core => Pistol, or PistolCore
>  > higher-level pygame-ctypes stuff (sprites, etc) => PistolGrip
>  
>  How about Pystol (pronounced Pistol) and Pystol.Grip (pygame
>  compatibility lib)
>  
>  Python SDL & TOols Library
>  
>  Tim Ansell
>  
>  > So the PistolGrip is what the user (the game developer) "hangs onto",
>  > while the Pistol (or PistolCore) is what actually gets the low-level
>  > work done.
>  > 
>  > I think this could be sort of catchy.  It's quite distinct from the
>  > old name, but still suggests gaming in some sense (how many FPS games
>  > *don't* have a pistol?).  We can even pretend that the "grip" part is
>  > an acronym. "game routines in python", or something.
>  > 
>  
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