[Bf-funboard] Where & Why

[Roger]

  >> FAQ in the Readme.html ??--


===== Got it thanks


> The readme file should come with Blender, as mentioned in the message.
> It's in the release/text folder, if you're building Blender yourself.
> 
> Link to the cvs version:
> http://projects.blender.org/viewcvs/viewcvs.cgi/*checkout*/blender/release/text/blender.html?rev=1.3&cvsroot=bf-blender 
> 
====== I dont know anything about cvs.
======  couldn't make head nor tail out of the site, what to download, etc..
====== the only file that mentioned cvs was a trial version of something, I dont know.
=== nothing clear cut that says download cvs click here.
> 
>> - Paths:

> import sys
> print sys.version  ====== reports  2.4.1
> print sys.path ========= reports '/usr/bin/python2.4', '/usr/lib/python2.4' and so on.



>> < To know more, check the API Reference doc (specifically the 
>> API_related and
>> Registry parts) and the documentation for the "Scripts Config Editor" 
>> script.>

> It should be there, the API_related and Blender.Registry pages:
> 
> http://www.blender3d.org/documentation/242PythonDoc/API_related-module.html
> 
> http://www.blender3d.org/documentation/242PythonDoc/Registry-module.html
> 
>> Scripts Config Editor in blender 2.42a  gives an error message, it needs th missing modules,  how helpful is that ?.
> 
> 
> It relies on modules not found in your install.
> 
> So the first thing is to make sure that you have the same Python version
> that is used in the Blender executable that you have. 


===== this may be the problem === I have python2.4 and the system-info.txt mentions python 2.3
So it seems that the blender 2.42 versions I downloaded   2 weeks ago are compiled against an old
python version.

> 
> Lastly, to test your Python installation you can open the standalone 
> Python interpreter (type python in a shell) and try to import one or 
> more of those modules that are reported as missing.
> 


Python Imports  and prints  all modules, none are missing.
A curiosity.
The Camera.py startup script  imports math and works, without error. system-info.txt reports math as
missing module -- why?
  I ran system-info, yesterday 4 times consecutively one after another and each <warnings> reported
different missing modules   why?


Interesting note: Some of the scripts work ok in Blender 2.37 but not 2.42.
is this a path problem?

I tried soft linking  python 2.4. as python2.3 but that doesn't work either.
I do not really want to install python 2.3.

Thanks
Roger