[Bf-committers] A big problem with python 3.2

[pete larabell]

Not that most people in the mailing list use FreeBSD, but as a plug for my
favorite OS, python3.2 is already available in the ports tree, and works
just fine for compiling blender. :)

On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 5:33 PM, Richard Shaw <hobbes1069 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 12:40 PM, Ton Roosendaal <ton at blender.org> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > For binary distros you can include a static python too. This should
> > cover most of Linux user cases?
> > Source distros are a different topic... but for that a dependency with
> > Python 3.2 sources can be added?
>
> For now I got around it by checking out the last SVN revision that
> didn't require Python 3.2 which was 35385 and manually created a patch
> for the blenderplayer install issue. It built fine and I tested
> remotely but it was too slow to be sure. It did fix the errors I was
> getting to the console so that's promising.
>
> Fedora is on a 6 month release schedule with only 2 versions being
> supported so F14 only has <1 year left and F15 will have python 3.2 so
> I think I'll just wait it out unless I find a bug fix which I can
> backport.
>
> Richard
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