[Bf-committers] "Experimental" pydna

Dan Eicher dan at trollwerks.org
Sun Apr 3 17:11:18 CEST 2011


Plus it doesn't work on windows which would frustrate people
developing on linux and trying to release their script to the public.

On Sun, Apr 3, 2011 at 6:32 AM, Ton Roosendaal <ton at blender.org> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Last september, Revision 31766, Campbell added this:
> -----------
> ./intern/tools/pydna.py
> Experimental module (for developers only), exposes DNA data via python
> uses no blender/python modules, pure python + autogenerated ctypes api.
> -----------
>
> Since it allows full Blender data access, scripters are using it to
> cover up for missing RNA parts. A 2nd Life developer in IRC asked if
> we could enable it on the 2.57 release, by ensuring it works for
> Windows as well (needs a small #ifdef DNA hack).
>
> My suggestion would be to really not do this, it doesn't belong in
> releases. By "fixing" this backdoor to work in all released binaries
> we only will regret it later on. We don't have our RNA project for a
> good reason...
>
> Because 2nd Life really needs image access, I advised them to provide
> temporarily a special build for their users to survive the period
> until we have our own decent working RNA level image access.
>
> Please advise if that's acceptable?
>
> -Ton-
>
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