[Bf-committers] Moving to Python 3.2.x

[Tobias Oelgarte]

That may work for Fedora. But i could not find any packages for Ubuntu 
10.10 so far. So i will need to compile python on my own and make a mess 
out of my system again...

Am 07.03.2011 14:30, schrieb Tobias Kummer:
> I'm on Fedora 14. A quick "sudo yum update python3 --enablerepo=rawhide"
> updated my python to 3.2. Then just had to add SUFFIX = "mu" in my
> user-config.py. Pretty hacky transition for now, but it works without
> having to compile Py3.2 for yourself. I think most Linux distros have
> 3.2 in their development repository, so enabling it for updating Python
> should fix it.
>
> Greets!
>
> On 03/07/2011 02:21 PM, Tobias Oelgarte wrote:
>> I have the same problem. Ubuntu 10.10 is still at 2.6.6 as the default.
>> It has 3.1 as the alternative. But why should we now need 3.2 in a rush.
>> This makes things only complicated for users that don't want to compile
>> anything on their own.
>>
>> Am 07.03.2011 14:16, schrieb rsaavedra at ono.com:
>>> 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.
>>>
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