[Bf-committers] Python 3.1 proposal

[Dalai Felinto]

Hi Campbell,
my general opinion (user and dev-wise) is positive +1/+1 regarding this.

I have only 3 concerns:

1) You don't mention gameplayer in BGE there.
How would that be affected by your zipping/not zipping modules proposal?

2) In 2.4xx I was a bit worried with the risks of a full python
bundled with Blender (problems if you open untrusted .blend files).
But if you say we are safe(r) now, then let's do it. (or if this
concern is not that relevant).

3) Compatibility of external modules with python 3.1.
It doesn't look like all external python libraries will be ported to
3.0 any time soon. For example CLR (integration between Python and
dotNET) development doesn't look so optmistic (for the ammount of work
required) to be updated to 3.0.-
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/pythondotnet/2009-May/000930.html

I hope that change before 2.5 release. But in case it doesn't, what
are the alternatives? It's not going to be possible to build Blender
or BGE with python 2.xx after your changes, right?

Cheers,
Dalai

http://blenderecia.orgfree.com
2009/7/3 Campbell Barton <ideasman42 at gmail.com>:
> Heres my proposal for moving blender 2.5 to python 3.1,
>
> http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/BlenderDev/Blender2.5/PythonAPI_31
>
> The last 2 sections -   Proposal and Tasks, sum things up if you dont
> want to read through the details.
>
> To keep things simple I only mention OSX/Linux/Windows, but other unix
> OS's can be dealt with like linux.
>
> I tested a standalone blender that runs on linux without python
> installed. There were some unexpected problems I wont go into details
> but I think this is the easiest way to bundle python.
>
> There are a few things that don't matter so much like static vs
> dynamic linking and zip vs including a folder.
> The maintainer of each OS can decide on these but for the purpose of
> getting things going I put forward my preference and reasoning for the
> decisions, we can switch between these later if it makes sense to.
>
> If there are any questions Id like to try resolve before this Sunday meeting.
> Assuming this is accepted Id like to make this move within a week and
> remove support for python2.
>
> feedback and +|- 1's welcome
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