[Bf-committers] Blender 2.5x beta status

[William Reynish]

Hi Damien,

This mail is really an aside for Mac installation. I would vouch for not using disc images for distributing apps. Even though it's quite common in the Mac applications community I think it's best to avoid it. This article by UX designer Lukas Mathis explains precisely why one should refrain from using this format:

http://ignorethecode.net/blog/2009/07/24/installing-applications-on-the-mac-still-broken/

It's backed up by this other article by Joe Lion: http://joelion.com/2009/07/mac-app-installation/ and also the Firefox team at Mozilla: http://limi.net/articles/improving-the-mac-installer-for-firefox/

I think zip is much simpler to understand and manage for the user, it's also faster too (no need to mount, drag-to-apps, unmount).

Cheers,

-William




On Jul 13, 2010, at 12:15 PM, Damien Plisson <damien.plisson at yahoo.fr> wrote:

My build shell scripts are warming up for the 3 mac builds :)

BTW, do we keep .zip files or do we go with standard mac .dmg ?
.dmg are roughly 10% bigger but enable nice features such as background image, and explicit installation (copy to Application folder).

Damien

Le 13 juil. 2010 à 20:53, Ton Roosendaal a écrit :

> Hi devs,
> 
> Any showstoppers in sight for a new official build?
> 
> Joshua: can you check bug 22816?
> http://projects.blender.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=22816&group_id=9&atid=498
> 
> Update on the sculpt patch: Brecht and Nicholas don't have time for 
> extensive reviews, but user reports from the fields are so positive 
> (more stable than trunk) that Tom Musgrave accepts the responsibility 
> to apply patch now If there's serious issues he'll rewind it 
> tomorrow. Thursday we can do a final check and possibly call for the 
> release Ahoy!
> 
> Release builders are available end this week too? Please check in :)
> 
> -Ton-
> 
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> 
> On 10 Jul, 2010, at 17:37, Ton Roosendaal wrote:
> 
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> According to the commits, the last of the missing beta targets is now
>> in svn (install paths). That means we can get ready for an official
>> beta release. With beta as in "feature complete, not yet stable". :)
>> 
>> We will need to do some documentation efforts on precisely defining
>> what 'feature complete' is though, some 2.5 targets have been
>> postponed, some are still limited. Nevertheless, we've made great
>> progress, and having a reference build out for bug reports and
>> feedback is only important now.
>> 
>> This will be a topic on tomorrow's sunday meeting, also to check if
>> there's showstoppers.
>> 
>> For planning I'd propose to svn tag wednesday, do the traditional last
>> commit(s), and we'll release it friday or saturday. In the meantime we
>> need to work on:
>> 
>> - nice release log
>> - splash (durian team)
>> - docs about where 2.5 bottlenecks are still, what works and what's in
>> development...
>> - update doc on roadmap, what will happen 2nd half of this year
>> 
>> I need have to keep a bit space in our planning because of Durian
>> (last week of work here, pre-premiere in 8 days), because of the
>> horrible heat (30 degrees outside, 30 computers inside), and of course
>> the football match final tomorrow evening! :)
>> 
>> Laters,
>> 
>> -Ton-
>> 
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