Ability to easily update Pygame and Pygame Gui and make snakewm 'debuggable' within snakeware

[Cyppa]

As I am developing an app for snakeware I realised that my app was not compatible with the version of pygame gui that snakware uses. (My bad!) The app is several thousand lines of code already. If there was a way to update pygame and pygamegui in sankeware that would get this app into snakeware.

I have successfully built a snakeware ISO with the required pygame gui version (0.5.7) but snakewm won't load when I boot into the iso.

I am a noob when it comes to build root but if there is a way to debug snakewm within snakeware that would be a good first step.

Thanks.

[Admicos]

If there was a way to update pygame and pygamegui in sankeware that would get this app into snakeware.

Pygame is included by upstream Buildroot, so Updating Buildroot will update Pygame as well. For Pygame-Gui, the Buildroot package is at snakeware/external/package/python-pygame-gui[1]. The .mk file contains the metadata and download link, while the .hash file contains the md5 and sha256 hashes. You can get all that info from https://pypi.org/pypi/pygame_gui/json, but you'll need a JSON parser to deal with the data. If you use Firefox it automatically detects JSON and provides a neat interface to search through it. Otherwise, try using jq[2]. The data you're looking for is under releases["0.5.7"] [1]: https://github.com/joshiemoore/snakeware/tree/master/snakeware/external/package/python-pygame-gui [2]: https://stedolan.github.io/jq/

I have successfully built a snakeware ISO with the required pygame gui version (0.5.7) but snakewm won't load when I boot into the iso.

This is probably something else. If you can send what you did to me (via something like `git format-patch`), I could take a look, but I don't have a snakeware dev env set up right now, so that'll take an hour or two.

I am a noob when it comes to build root but if there is a way to debug snakewm within snakeware that would be a good first step.

A clean way to debug snakeware would definitely be nice. I'm not entirely sure how that could be done, but maybe we could add a debug compile flag we can pass to buildroot to make it redirect all Python text output to a file. (Or a serial port to view via Qemu's virtual serial support)

[Cyppa]

Thanks for your help. I've been in touch with you and 'Turtle1331' on Discord. (Sorry Admicos. I didn't realise the link between your Discord account and this one when I wrote the original reply it was am in the morning for me when I wrote the original reply..;)

I realised pygamegui 0.5.7 needs pygame 1.9.4 to run. This was becoming quite a task for me so I started re-writing parts of my code to work under pygamegui 0.5.6. This way I am able to test my app in snakeware with great result. This is just a temporary solution for now.

I hope to open a pull request and upload what I'm doing but I have no idea how to properly use github so that will take a while. As for biuldroot, that too is beyond me for now.

I am working on a text editor for snakeware and it is going great. I have a 'proof of concept' version ready with features that I disabled as I am re-writing the app to incorporate pygamegui 0.5.6 needs and window resizing. As I complete more of the re-writing I will release it somehow. For now I will upload it to the Discord chat under snakeware-dev. In that chat I also uploaded videos of features that work under pygamegui 0.5.7 (without window resizing) if anyone want to see for themselves.

Thanks agian for the help.

[hungl6844]

It might be possible to do this with a package manager, but snakeware is... unique. I may be able to write it myself, which would be fun, but debugging would be harder.
EDIT: I would like to reference #62