[Bf-committers] Blender 2.5 api proposal.

[Ton Roosendaal]

Hi Campbell,

I'm no py user, so a lot I can't review. Keeping things compatible, or  
easy to migrate, would of course help everyone getting their (very  
important) im/exporters work. But thats what everyone agrees on I  
think.

As for the main goals of the rewrite:

"Features available in blender should also be available in python"

I'd rather reverse that:

"Features exposed in Python's API should also be available in Blender".

This is worded by Chris Want as well ("focus on writing a decent C  
library/API").
I do realize this is not really a 2.5 spec, but for at least in two  
areas we'll be doing that: for wrapping RNA and Operators. Hopefully we  
can also solve this very good for the definitions of UIs  
(button/panel/toolbar stuff).

What remains is a lot of calls like "Add constraint" or "Delete  
modifier", which is currently a very undefined piece of Blender code,  
closely tied to the buttons for such options. At this moment it's well  
possible we don't tackle all of that via Operators, still allowing  
direct callbacks to buttons (just for the sake of simpler migration).

I don't know how important such operators are in Python now, but it  
would be *very* nice if people who add such functions in Python only do  
this via proper C calls in Blender, even when it means to first cleanup  
(API-fy with Operators) Blender.
One idea to resolve this is to make a shortlist of the most important  
py 'operators' that should get wrapped at least for the first version  
of 2.50?


-Ton-

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Ton Roosendaal  Blender Foundation   ton at blender.org    www.blender.org
Blender Institute BV  Entrepotdok 57A  1018AD Amsterdam The Netherlands

On 1 Dec, 2008, at 7:05, Campbell Barton wrote:

> Here's is my proposal for the Blender 2.5 api.
> http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/BlenderDev/Blender2.5/ 
> PythonAPI_Ideasman
>
> I'm interested to know what people think of possibly moving to a new
> api (especially active Blender/Python scripters).
>
> This page was started more to get an idea of what people wanted, its
> still useful for discussion.
> http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/BlenderDev/Blender2.5/PythonAPI
>
> Last meeting we discussed weather to use python 3.0, and it seems a  
> hot topic :)
> PyRNA runs with Python 2.3 - 3.0rc3, in anticipation for a possible
> switch, can we keep these issues separate since its has almost no
> baring on a new API.
>
> Even though this is a blender-2.5 topic, most of the people this
> affects are not on that list.
>
> -- 
> - Campbell
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