[Bf-committers] "Experimental" pydna

Erwin Coumans erwin.coumans at gmail.com
Sun Apr 3 17:33:21 CEST 2011


Dan, Ton mentioned the fix that makes it work for Windows.

What is the problem of adding such feature in 2.57, if it is marked
clearly as experimental/temporary fix?
When is a permanent fix ready?



On Sunday, 3 April 2011, Dan Eicher <dan at trollwerks.org> wrote:
> 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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