[Bf-committers] Blender 2.79 Release Candidate 2 AHOY

[Ray Molenkamp]

Allright! Good to know it was given some thought, that being said, I still had to talk some users into finding  the .zip  distribution. Clicking 'MacOS/linux/other' apparently

isn't *that* intuitive. Also my 32 bit Ubuntu just got served a 64 bit build, so I still feel some

tweaking can be done here.

--Ray


On 9/18/2017 2:41 AM, Julian Eisel wrote:
> Just a quick update on Ray's concerns (we already discussed them in IRC):
>
> Term 'portable' was replaced by '.zip'.
> Re hiding of other platforms, the platform is automatically detected.
> So if you're running 32bit Linux, the big download button should
> download Blender for 32bit Linux.
> I'd say there was definitely some thought on how end users actually use it! ;)
>
> On 12 September 2017 at 22:48, Ray Molenkamp <ray at lazydodo.com> wrote:
>> Why is the .zip file advertised as 'portable' on the download page ?
>> We write to the users profile folder for settings and any 3rd party
>> add-ons that get installed by the user. Which is exactly what portable
>> applications are not supposed to do [1]
>>
>> 'standalone' instead of portable will probably be better.
>>
>> Also it being hidden behind the 'macOS, GNU/Linux, and other platforms'
>> drop down is making the 32 bit builds (and zip versions) harder to find
>> for end users (people on irc were already complaining about not being
>> able to find things).
>>
>> The website looks great, but can we give some thought on how end users
>> will actually use the website?
>>
>> --Ray
>>
>> [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_application
>>
>> On 9/12/2017 5:54 AM, Ton Roosendaal wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Pablo is wrapping up the blender.org pages now, official release (as in on blender frontpage) is within an hour!
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> -Ton-
>>>
>>> --------------------------------------------------------
>>> Ton Roosendaal  -  ton at blender.org   -   www.blender.org
>>> Chairman Blender Foundation, Director Blender Institute
>>> Entrepotdok 57A, 1018 AD, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
>>>
>>>> On 12 Sep 2017, at 12:40, Bastien Montagne <montagne29 at wanadoo.fr> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Builds have been published, git repositories have been tagged,
>>>> py API doc has been updated, as well as bugfixes list... [1]
>>>>
>>>> Thanks a lot everybody, now we may focus on 2.8! xD
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> Bastien
>>>>
>>>> [1] https://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:Ref/Release_Notes/2.79/Bug_Fixes#Release
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Le 11/09/2017 à 21:46, Sergey Sharybin a écrit :
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> All the builds are up at their final destination.
>>>>>
>>>>> We need to give some hours to let mirrors to sync, then we can modify the
>>>>> download page. Release candidate builds will be removed once download page
>>>>> is updated.
>>>>>
>>>>> On Mon, Sep 11, 2017 at 5:04 PM, Ray Molenkamp <ray at lazydodo.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> windows builds are ready.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> --Ray
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 9/11/2017 4:50 AM, Bastien Montagne wrote:
>>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> We are ready for the 2.79 final release!
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Information for platform maintainers:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> - Build from the blender-2.79-release branch,
>>>>>>> SHA 5bd8ac9abfa2fa5db8ddfef393fc2c4dc82ba22d
>>>>>>> - Addons revision: f1c6cfa21594e7c8b7a43cd1e0653d8a812929c6
>>>>>>> - Locale revision: 1bbc9bdabe4ed26c164aef8a43ef39657dc23cfb
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Keep naming consistent with currently uploaded rc2. Make sure you're
>>>>>> using tagged libraries and not latest trunk libraries.
>>>>>>> As usual, tagging (as well as API docs and fixlist updates) will happen
>>>>>> once all builds are up and we are sure we do not need to re-ahoy.
>>>>>>> Thanks for your time and let me know when the builds are up.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>>>> Bastien
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