[Bf-committers] Moving to Python 3.2.x

[Damir Prebeg]

All is getting to complicated to fast...

On 7 March 2011 14:16, rsaavedra at ono.com <rsaavedra at ono.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>  I compile blender once o twice a week, but today I got this
> error:
>
> #error "Python versions below 3.1 are not supported anymore,
> you'll need to update your python."
>
>  That keep me wondering what the
> problem was, until I realized that in blender/python/intern/bpy_util.h
> there was this check:
>
> #if PY_VERSION_HEX <  0x03020000
> #error "Python
> versions below 3.1 are not supported anymore, you'll need to update
> your python."
> #endif
>
>  Please, someone fix the message :)
>
>  By the
> way, I downloaded and compiled python 3.2 and then I had to put
> BF_PYTHON_VERSION = '3.2m' in user-config.py .
>
>  After that it
> copiled without problems and runned. I haven't tested blender yet to
> find if this  breaks anything.
>
>
>
> ----Mensaje original----
> De:
> ideasman42 at gmail.com
> Fecha: 07/03/2011 12:35
> Para: "bf-blender
> developers"<bf-committers at blender.org>
> Asunto: [Bf-committers] Moving
> to Python 3.2.x
>
> Now we have Mac & Windows building with python 3.1 we
> can drop support
> for all OS's.
> For Linux this probably means you'll
> need to build your own since few
> distributions support py3.2 yet.
>
> I've
> updated the instructions for building python here.
> http://wiki.blender.
> org/index.php/Dev:2.5/Doc/Building_Blender/Linux/Troubleshooting#Python
>
>
> note, since our wiki update the syntax highlighting has gone a strange
>
> (since moving servers) so some text is easier to read when selected.
>
>
> One gotcha with 3,.2 is that python now has a suffix which depends on
>
> build-options so you may have libpython32mu.so or libpython32d.so,
>
> where before it was simply libpython32.so.
>
> >From ./configure.in
>  * --
> with-pydebug (adds a 'd')
>  * --with-pymalloc (adds a 'm')
>  * --with-
> wide-unicode (adds a 'u')
>
> This means getting the path to includes &
> libs isn't so simple
> anymore, for linux it may be best to search for
> all possibly
> combinations of d/m/u to detect the python version, but
> for now these
> need to be set manually.
>
> --
> - Campbell
>
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