[Bf-committers] Blender 2.79 Nightly builds using different Python versions

[Brecht Van Lommel]

There is no 2.79c planned currently.

The main issue here is naming. The changes in this branch are not just
bugfixes on top if 2.79, there are also new features and a few
compatibility breaking changes. We can't undo those, users of that branch
are already relying on them.

In the future we should two things different (that I have argued for
before):
* Increase Blender version immediately at the start of the release cycle,
not at the end.
* Avoid long release cycles like for 2.80, so there is no need to add new
features in both branches.


On Fri, Mar 15, 2019 at 5:30 PM Brian Savery <brian.savery at gmail.com> wrote:

> First of all, not sure if a 2.79C build is planned.  But we've noticed
> something odd recently.  Namely, that nightly builds of 2.79 use python
> version 3.7.0, whereas the "released" 2.79b build uses 3.5.3
>
> Not a big deal, it's python right?  Well except there are plenty of addons
> that use C-Extensions for python.  On certain platforms (windows
> particularly) a python C-Extension is not forward compatible (unless you
> use some particular limited feature set).  So addon users get errors when
> trying to use "2.79" versions of addons that use c-extensions.
>
> Furthermore, I would claim from a release management standpoint, if you're
> calling something a 2.79 build of Blender, it should not be switching
> python versions.  Basic api compatibility.  I'm assuming the reason this
> was done was that you're using the same build machines for 2.80 which uses
> python 3.7, but it is possible to run multiple versions of python on one
> machine.  Can this be fixed please?
>
> Brian
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