[Bf-committers] Bundle Python 3.0 for Blender 2.5
Brecht Van Lommel
brecht at blender.org
Fri Dec 5 15:51:46 CET 2008
Hi,
> Campbell Barton wrote:
>> Hey All, this proposal covers 2 topics
>> * Distribute Blender with python on all OS's (I'd suggest this
>> irrespective of py version used)
>> * Move to Python 3.0 for blender 2.5 (relies on a bundling python)
I think some sort of painful transition is inevitable. Python 3.0 will
inevitably break most scripts, just grep for "print" in
release/scripts and see how often it is used, and there are many more
incompatibilities, external scripts are probably no different.
On the other hand 2.5 is going to break the Draw module. For example
Draw.PupMenu is blocking, but this is not allowed in 2.50. Again more
than half of the scripts in release/scripts use that, so they will
break even if we try to preserve the 2.4x api.
I think we might as well get it over with in one go.
Further, I do not really understand the objection to bundling python
with Blender. If Blender is compiled with the same version as is
installed on the operating system, external modules using that version
will still be available.
If you are distributing a script with external modules you can
distribute them with the script even and it's easier because you know
the python version Blender uses. If this is for some custom script for
your own purposes I'm sure you are capable of compiling either Blender
or the external module so they use the same python version, if the
version is not the same already. Right now even, chances are there is
no Blender release with the python version you are using.
So, basically I agree with Campbell in that we should bundle 2.5 with
python 3.0, I don't see what would be the better alternative that is
feasible, as I don't think having two python versions compiled into
Blender is a practical possibility.
Brecht.
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