[Bf-committers] 2.45 release - py script problems

[Martin Poirier]

--- Jean-Luc Peurière <jlp at nerim.net> wrote:

> 
> Le 24 Aug 2007 à 16:42, Ken Hughes a écrit :
> 
> > Stephen Swaney wrote:
> >>   Python 2.3 is the lowest version we claim
> Blender will use.
> >>   This requirement is mainly due to OSX.
> >>
> > IIRC, didn't we decide in a Sunday IRC meeting
> (and even Ton agreed)
> > that OSX users would just have to deal with 2.4
> being the minimum
> > supported version and upgrade python on their own?
>  I know we've been
> > around and around on this issue, but thought we
> decided anyone smart
> > enough to figure out Blender should be smart
> enough to figure out  
> > how to
> > install Python.
> >
> 
> A solution is to ship a full python 2.5 framework
> inside blender bundle.

A better solution is to have the installer offer the
option to either take the user to the Python site for
manual install, automatically download the python
installer and run it or skip python install (if it is
already installed).

Martin


       
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