[Bf-python] python 2.4

[Campbell J Barton]

Its a pity python isnt the best on Irix, I got the impression that iris 
wasnt much different then linux but for a language there are probably 
finer issues to deal with...

Python 2.2 > 2.3 saw a fairly large performance jump for me, but that 
might have been compiler oprions etc (Managed to achieve twice the speed 
with an exporter I wrote)

- Cam

Chris Want wrote:

>
> 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
>>
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