[Bf-committers] yafray might be dropped from Blender?

[Giuseppe Ghibò]

Arne Schmitz wrote:
> Am Sonntag, 16. März 2008 15:12 schrieb Giuseppe Ghibò:
>   
>> Indeed what you call 'XML exporter' is actually a side effect for
>> calling yafray trough command name and not trough the library plugin
>> (as it writes and overlap every XML file to TMP and also uses always the
>> same filename: this is not good in a multiuser environment).
>>  IMHO that "exporter" should be a little bit tuned, giving the aspect of
>> a real exporter, and the possibility to set the filename
>> of the XML file trough a file requester.
>>     
>
> Yes definitely. I have written a patch a few years ago, so that the filename 
> would be random. This way, I used Blender in batchmode to render with my own 
>   

Yep, though that random filename (one can use mktemp()) doesn't yet fix 
the "exporting" problem, as you don't know which filename owns a certain 
scene.
> Yafray-reading renderer on a Sun Grid Engine. There it was possible to have 4 
> to 8 concurrent blender instances on a single node. So I needed to make sure 
> that the filename used was unique. :)
>