[Bf-committers] Moving to Python 3.2.x

[Campbell Barton]

On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 7:07 AM, Dave Plater <dplater at webafrica.org.za> wrote:
> On 03/09/2011 05:24 AM, Campbell Barton wrote:
>> Only supporting a single version of python IMHO is important to reduce
>> overhead with a small developer team,
>>
> I'm still in the dark as to why external system python which is
> maintained by the distro python maintainer has to be 3.2 for blender to
> build against. This is no maintenance on your side and the distribution
> blender maintainer takes care of the bugs (supposed to anyway) and if it
> is an upstream blender bug passes correct information and in some cases
> offers a patch to solve the bug.
> There's nothing wrong with blender having a particular version of python
> bundled with it but why can't it build with the distributions python
> 3.1. This is for the silent majority of users who want software that
> works and don't have a wish to build it themselves. Give us a clue about
> where the changes are that prevent the use of 3.1 and we will patch it
> ourselves in which case it becomes our maintenance problem but that's
> why we're maintainers.
>
> Thanks
> Dave P

The maintenance is not with python its self but blenders C/API &
scripts which would need to be kept compatible.

Blender users who don't want to build can use
www.blender.org/download/get-256-beta/ which includes python,
Blender2.57 will include python3.2.

But I see you would like to continue python 3.1 support, these commits
can be made in to patches and reversed: 35386, 35395.

- Campbell