[Bf-committers] meeting minutes - June 13, 2010

[Matt Ebb]

On 14/06/2010, at 09:46 , Tom M wrote:

> Campbell also proposed either marking the Render API as unstable for
> the release and/or removing it.
> 
> It was pointed out that a number of external renderers are making use
> of this API so their input should be sought on what the most desirable
> path would be.
> 
> Ton suggested a possible compromise might be to keep the api but
> documented as limited.
> For projects that are making use of the existing API - gamekit, lux
> render, yafaray, vray please give input

What's the problem here, that it's unstable (crashing etc?) or bugs in it, or limited? I've never seen anything to indicate that people shouldn't be using the render API - indeed a lot of people have been. What would be the purpose in removing it?

Matt