[Bf-python] python 2.4

[Chris Want]

Personally, I wish that the blender code wasn't
upgraded from python 2.2 -- the irix version has
had nothing but trouble since then. (Please
note: these problems are mostly within python
itself, not blender).

There is more to upgrading than just changing
a version number in scons/make. Sometimes some of
the python data structures change size from one
version to another (e.g., try building blender
with python 2.2 and see how far you get).

Anyways, I think it would be best to wait until
python 2.4 stabilizes (on all platforms) before
making it a dependency for blender (or at the
very least, offer some backwards compatibility).

Chris

Campbell J Barton wrote:
>  From python.org its at rc1 thats dosent cound as a full release does it?
> Still, it would be nice for blender to support it.
> 
> Out of interest, would there be anything more todo then change the 2.3 
> to 2.4 in the scons/Makefiles?> Im sure there would be, but just wondering.
> 
> - Cam
> 
> www.stani.be wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>> As probably everybody knows, python2.4 came out today.
>> Would it be possible to use this python version for
>> the next Blender release? In my opininion the
>> transition to python 2.3 earlier was far too slow.
>> Thanks for your consideration,
>> Stani