[Bf-committers] Bump MacOS minimum requirements to 10.15 for Blender 3.5

[Brecht Van Lommel]

There is not going to be an OpenGL fallback once Metal is stable. Eevee
next and the viewport compositor will require Metal, it's not just about
performance.

On Thu, Jan 5, 2023 at 5:18 PM Chuck Ocheret via Bf-committers <
bf-committers at blender.org> wrote:

> It seems to me that supporting Metal with a fallback to OpenGL for older
> versions might be equivalent to such a fallback for when a Vulkan
> implementation of the viewport gets rolled out. I have no idea how close
> that is yet. But I’m excited for an aggressive move forward to Vulkan and
> Metal since that will facilitate many new capabilities.
>
> I suppose I’m voting for the 3rd option for now, even though it might be
> more work. That is unless new features enabled by Vulkan and Metal are
> forthcoming. I suspect those are far off so Metal only offers performance
> benefits for newer platforms.
>
> ~chuck
>
> Chuck Ocheret
> http://www.linkedin.com/in/ocheret
>
>
> > On Jan 5, 2023, at 10:09 AM, Jeroen Bakker via Bf-committers <
> bf-committers at blender.org> wrote:
> >
> > Hello all,
> >
> > A few weeks ago we enabled the Metal back-end for the viewport. By
> default
> > Blender will start using OpenGL, but in the User preferences the Metal
> > backend can be enabled. The first responses and test are very positive
> and
> > currently it is very likely that Metal will be released as a secondary
> > backend in Blender 3.5.
> >
> > Currently Master is only able to build on MacOS 10.15 and above due this
> > change. The current minimum requirement is MacOS 10.13.
> >
> > So there are some options to consider here.
> > * Do we release blender 3.5 with Metal Backend?
> > * Do we bump the minimum version from 10.13 to 10.15 for Blender 3.5?
> > * Add logic in many places to make sure that 10.15 code-paths aren't used
> > when run in 10.13?
> >
> > Sergey mentioned that there are already ideas to bump the version to
> 10.15
> > for Blender 3.6. So this proposal is to do this one release earlier.
> >
> > My proposal would be to do the version bump for Blender 3.5 due to these
> > reasons.
> > Would like to have some feedback if this is acceptable.
> >
> > Jeroen.
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