[Bf-python] Remote IPython & PyCrust Shell for Blender

[Stephen Swaney]

On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 03:14:56PM +0900, Dietrich Bollmann wrote:

> Could you detail what you mean by a "clean patch" ?

In your own words:

  "Sorry ... I initially wrote the command port for myself and didn't
  intend to publish the code.  So some changes and experiments which
  are not really essential for the command port itself ended up in the
  code."

The comments I made on this patch last August still apply:

  From a quick glance, it looks like there is a lot going on in
  this patch:

  - command arg processing refactor
  - a debug facility
  - the command port
  - re-implementation of some standard C functions like isdigit.

  It is easier to wade thru patches if they deal with a single
  topic.  Nearly 12,000 lines of code makes for a big patch.

A patch should deal with a single feature.  No need to re-write
Blender all at once.

There is no reason to re-implement standard C functions like
isdigit() even if you give them different names.

> Is it possible to create a subversion branch in the blender repository
> where I could move the patch to?

We have been cautious about creating branches except for approved 
projects.  Whether this is good or bad is a discussion for another
place.  

Right now, best course of action is as  Willian suggested:

> > Anyway, the main issue now (as usual) is the upcoming events refactor in 
> > Blender. It would be wiser to wait a little more before coding anything 
> > non trivial, because things will change considerably and we have chance 
> > to come up with better / cleaner ways to interface with Blender data.
> 
> > For now I suggest you guys directly interested in scripting Blender via 
> > external apps to create a basic plan, detailing what you need to have, 
> > preferred methods (sockets, simple signals, etc.). A page in our bpython 
> > dev section in the wiki would be ideal for this, but as a start one of 
> > you could write something here and the others could add to it, then we 
> > put the results in the wiki.

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Stephen Swaney			
sswaney at centurytel.net