[Bf-committers] Windows platform things to do before 2.73

[Sergey Sharybin]

We're being frustrated by someone setting python environment variables
globally in the system which makes blender not to run, but now we're
proposing to add some global environment variables by ourselves. Anyone to
foresee what kind of negative effect it could cause?

Adding environment variables in shortcut also not gonna to be good because
you can not control how one creates shortcuts for the buildbot builds.

On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 7:18 PM, Martijn Berger <martijn.berger at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi Antony,
>
> For the record. I would plan 2 options during installing,
> 1) set globally
> 2) set in shortcut
>
> And if it is not set correctly blender might warn about this ( not sure how
> that would work from UI perspective though ).
>
>
>
> On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 3:15 PM, Antony Riakiotakis <kalast at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > I'm not sure if setting the OpenMP variable system wide is a nicer
> solution
> > than what we have, but +1 from me on warning about crappy OpenGL.
> >
> > On 25 November 2014 at 14:49, Martijn Berger <martijn.berger at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Hi everyone,
> > >
> > > I would like to propose
> > >
> > > - actually checking the OpenGL context when starting up blender.
> > >    - fatal error when less then the required OpenGL 1.4 is found.
> > >    - warning when less then OpenGL 2.1 is found (Nvidia  NV30 released
> in
> > > 2003)
> > >
> > >      There are some technical issue with giving the fatal error as it
> > might
> > > be best to use an OS dependent dialog box explaining that blender
> cannot
> > > run on windows at least.
> > >      Mac OS X is unaffected as all versions we support guarantee at
> least
> > > this capability.
> > >
> > >      On windows at least this would make sure the bugs reported by
> people
> > > using GDI driven OpenGL 1.1 will not happen. Also it would get our
> users
> > > who still use blender on an pentium 3 with windows XP the ability to
> > adjust
> > > to the fact that it might not always continue to work with the latest
> and
> > > greatest.
> > >
> > > - getting rid of the launcher.
> > >   On windows we have a binary launcher that exists only to set an
> OPENMP
> > > related environment variable.
> > >   I would like to get rid of this again in favour of setting it in the
> > > short-cut or setting the variable globally during install.
> > >   Also we could and should check for this in the "System Info".
> > >
> > >
> > > Both of these issues touch on the issue of giving the user feedback
> about
> > > his or her system configuration / hardware / settings and how they
> might
> > > negatively impact blenders performance. I would like feedback on how to
> > > handle these.
> > >
> > > Martijn
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With best regards, Sergey Sharybin