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

[Sergey Sharybin]

What is the global issue with the launcher anyway? It's not nice solution
from coder perspective, but for users it's most seamless approach.

We might look into using icc or clang (which i believe is planned to have
openmp support in 3.6) as the official compiler for windows, then we simply
wouldn't need need msvc-related workarounds.

On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 7:41 PM, Martijn Berger <martijn.berger at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi Thomas,
>
> "The shortcut idea might be the best, even though there is no guarantee
> that the user actually starts Blender via that." -> this is why we need a
> good way to give a user feedback to some system / configuration issue that
> is impacting his/her blender experience. But how do we do that part ?
>
> Martijn
>
> On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 3:32 PM, Thomas Dinges <blender at dingto.org> wrote:
>
> > Hi Martijn,
> >
> > - I am fine with the OpenGL error / warning, that is a good idea and
> > hopefully saves us some "Blender does not run" reports.
> >
> > - Getting rid of the launcher is a good idea, but I don't think we
> > should set a global environment variable.
> > The shortcut idea might be the best, even though there is no guarantee
> > that the user actually starts Blender via that.
> >
> > Thomas
> >
> > Am 25.11.2014 um 14:49 schrieb Martijn Berger:
> > > 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