[Bf-committers] Blender 2.5x beta status

[Campbell Barton]

applied basic changes like 'selected' -> 'select' that are most likely
to break scripts, updated addons and our own scripts.
(Make that Sintel showing on Sunday).

Good we get to do this with a bit more time, not nice to do this work
in crunch time :)

On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 7:34 PM, Ton Roosendaal <ton at blender.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'd go for option three (release within a week), and do another update
> end of august or early september. We will get a myriad of reports to
> handle anyway!
>
> This version won't be advertised as final or stable.
>
> -Ton-
>
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> Ton Roosendaal  Blender Foundation   ton at blender.org    www.blender.org
> Blender Institute   Entrepotdok 57A  1018AD Amsterdam   The Netherlands
>
> On 15 Jul, 2010, at 14:26, Campbell Barton wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 7:33 PM, Dan Eicher <dan at trollwerks.org>
>> wrote:
>>> On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 9:36 AM, W. Scott Meador
>>> <ws_meador at yahoo.com>wrote:
>>>
>>>> Different topic - would love to see Blender package its libraries
>>>> on Linux
>>>> the
>>>> way it does for OSX.
>>>
>>>
>>> Anything but that, just link them statically.
>>
>> Before release Id really like to apply RNA edits.
>> At the moment I think Brecht and myself really need to finish this off
>> but we're also fairly busy.
>>
>> Changing these will break scripts of course but animations too (if
>> these rna values happen to be animated).
>>
>> Currently these are WIP.
>> ./source/blender/makesrna/rna_cleanup/rna_booleans.txt
>> ./source/blender/makesrna/rna_cleanup/rna_properties.txt
>>
>> Even if we finish off this list we need to apply the changes and I
>> have to write a script to apply fixes to existing files.
>>
>> So I think its important to do this before the beta, however we have a
>> lot to do before Sintel Showing on Monday, (July, 18th), and I return
>> home on the 20th so will need a day or so to recover :).
>>
>>
>> Here are some ways we could deal with this...
>> 1) Try really hard to finish and apply the changes before siggraph
>> (not sure we can manage this)
>>
>> 2) Delay Beta 2 weeks (early August?)
>>
>> 3) Release Beta but without these changes, include disclaimer that
>> animations will need manual updating and release a second beta in 2-4
>> weeks.
>>  IMHO this is the most reasonable things to do, since this also gives
>> us some time to fix some of the most obvious bugs that are normally
>> after an update which includes many changes.
>>
>> 4) Release Alpha 3 (Ton disagrees but including for completeness,
>> practically similar 3.)
>>
>> 5) Don't make any changes, postpone for 2.6??? (including for
>> completeness, highly stupid IMHO)
>>
>> Would suggest try 1) fallback to 2/3
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- Campbell