[Bf-committers] Updated BMesh Merge Proposal

[Campbell Barton]

no-crash, no-face - feature committed, also saves on undo memory and
disk space :).

save as legacy blend still works of course.

On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 10:18 PM, Ton Roosendaal <ton at blender.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> When I reviewed BMesh todos with Campbell I specifically asked for ensuring we don't crash old binaries. The software of course cannot read the bmesh faces (showing emppty mesh), but files should not crash on it. You get the warning "expect loss of data" first of course.
>
> -Ton-
>
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>
> On 2 Jan, 2012, at 11:13, Matt Ebb wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 9:04 PM, Campbell Barton <ideasman42 at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> I think this is enough - we could disable loading the file at all and
>>> then blender wont crash - or only allow loading when --debug is passed
>>> for people who know what there doing. not sure its worthwhile -
>>> people are warned and they can upgrade there blender.
>>>
>>
>> I think it's very worthwhile for blender to not crash if it can be avoided
>> - preventing the file from loading is a much better scenario than crashing
>> and losing everything. Particularly when there still isn't a warning yet to
>> save changes in your existing file, when opening up a new one.
>>
>> cheers
>>
>> Matt
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