[Bf-committers] VFX reference platform 2022 draft

[Ray Molenkamp]

imho 3.9 is the only version they could have picked, the
proposed release date for 3.10 is 2021-10-04 [1]. While
the VFX platform aims to finalize in august [2]. I was
rather vocal last year for them putting versions on that
had not been released yet (some of which got delayed well
into 2021) I'm happy to see for 2022 a more conservative
stance has been taken.

With bugfix support for 3.9 ending on 2022-05-02 [3] that
does put them in an odd situation, they'll either have
to recommend a version that may not be released on time,
or recommend a version that will not see bug fixes for most
of the year. There seemingly is no winning solution here
since the problem appears to be the somewhat short
support window for python releases.

As much as I picked on them last year for making very
strange recommendations, I feel they struck a good balance
for 2022.

--Ray

[1] https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0619/
[2] https://vfxplatform.com/about/
[3] https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0596/

On 2021-05-18 2:47 a.m., Sybren A. Stüvel via Bf-committers wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Mon, 17 May 2021 at 19:54, Brecht Van Lommel via Bf-committers <
> bf-committers at blender.org> wrote:
>
>> There is a draft for the next VFX reference platform up now. Since we had
>> some issues with the last one, it would be good to give feedback if
>> necessary.
>>
> Good call.
>
>
>> Python was upgraded to 3.9, which will still trail behind 3.10 that will be
>> released this year. So the question about diverging or not will remain.
>>
> My preference would be to, for non-LTS releases at least, stick to versions
> of Python that still receive bugfixes. In the past we've had crashes of
> Blender that were due to a bug in Python. The only way to solve that was to
> upgrade Python itself. This in itself is rare, but I don't remember having
> such issues at all until we stuck to the old py3.7 to adhere to the VFX
> Platform.
>
> Is there anything known about the policy of the VFX Platform when it comes
> to picking which Python version to stick to? Is it always going to be
> "whatever version was released a year earlier"? Or is there still an
> acceleration happening after sticking to py2.7 so long, and will they
> eventually be targeting the latest versions? If it's the latter I'd be fine
> with following the VFX Platform and sticking to py3.9 for a while longer.
> If sticking to the platform means that for a significant amount of time
> we'll be on versions of Python that don't receive bugfixes any more, I'm
> less positive.
>
> Sybren
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