[Bf-funboard] Blender-upgrader

[Stephen Swaney]

On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 01:29:55AM +1100, Campbell Barton wrote:
> 
> All problems can be solved, or avoided even, but I think we better
> just not attempt to solve this and let users download themselves, or
> use the OS's package manager.
> 
> Maybe Im wrong, but I see these kinds of features as a distraction
> from making better 3D software, though if some developer was around to
> implement and support this - I'd be more accepting of such a feature.

You could be wrong, but you are not.  Having done just this sort of
thing in the commercial world, it is essentially a project unto itself
in terms of problems to be solved (multi-platform hell!) and necessary
bodies to work on it.

Let Blender be Blender.
-- 
Stephen Swaney		sswaney at centurytel.net