[Bf-education] 2.49 or 2.5 this academic year

Ton Roosendaal ton at blender.org
Fri Apr 8 20:24:37 CEST 2011


Hi,

We had a 2.4x stable, and a 2.5x project which is now getting stable  
too.
That's all you need to tell to students or teachers now.

-Ton-

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Ton Roosendaal  Blender Foundation   ton at blender.org    www.blender.org
Blender Institute   Entrepotdok 57A  1018AD Amsterdam   The Netherlands

On 5 Apr, 2011, at 6:44, Doug Ollivier wrote:

> I get a lot of confused people (students, management, teachers, IT
> department etc...) about the following:
>
> [*] sing the beta versions over the stable versions (although they  
> were
> convinced after i just said i was doing it, and told them i can teach
> 30% more in the same time simply due to 2.5x being so much mroe  
> logical)
>
> [*] When to write a new book. i.e. they were waiting for a new version
> before writing another book, not realizing that the blender naming
> scheme is totally $#*(%ed.  I managed to convince them it is an  
> entirely
> new package now.
>
> [*] When to stop distributing the old book. i.e. they are still  
> handing
> out 2.45 version books thinking it will be fine for the whole 2
> series..... Uh-Oh, wrong!
>
> This is a serious serious problem, and only gets me flack every time i
> have a new class etc.... I've simply stopped defending Blender on it,
> and say that it is great software with poor version numbering.
>
> I wish Ton would understand the headaches the current numbering system
> causes, It is a tangible issue that is holding Blender Back no-matter
> how much it improves technically.
>
>
> On 5/04/2011 11:41 a.m., Graham Hall wrote:
>> Hey I teach @ FE college in UK
>>
>> Getting some stick from management for using 2.5 beta rather than  
>> 2.49
>> - anyone else getting any?
>>
>> thanks
>>
>>
>>
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