[Bf-committers] Are ffmpeg, xvidcore, libmp3lame and x264 permanently removed from blender?

[Dave Plater]

On 02/19/2010 05:12 PM, Mathias Panzenböck wrote:
> On 02/19/2010 11:08 AM, Dave Plater wrote:
> Do you
> > think that there will be a stable 2.50 by the end of May in time to
> make
> > it into openSUSE 11.3?
> > Regards
> > Dave P
>
> Quoting blender.org:
> "
> Betas 2, 3 and 4 will add additional UI features, alongside further
> tool development, leading up to a fully stabilised and production
> ready Blender 2.6 release in mid 2010.
> "
> http://www.blender.org/development/release-logs/blender-250/
>
> AFAIK there will no stable 2.50, because this is a development version
> of blender (like Linux 2.3). But the blender developers said they want
> to have 2.60 (which will be the next stable release) at the next
> SIGGRAPH (which is somewhen in the summer).
>
>     -panzi
>
As far as stability goes how would it compare to 2.49a and 2.49b?
Thanks
Dave P