[Bf-python] removing scripts...

[Campbell Barton]

Hey Willian. as always your the level headed one ;)

 I was/am frustrated  at the state of scripts and made some attempt to 
have the out scripts workable for 2.42 release which basically made me 
aware of the varied quality of some of the scripts we release.
- my reaction was a knee jerk response to  this issue, and since we have 
more time until the next release, well work out something thats better 
all round

The texture packing issue. was something I was aware of but never 
needed, 1 week or so after it was requested it was added in.
I try to make my scripts useful to a wide range of people - Possibly 
people  just dont think to ask.
- But its not a bad example of how people use scripts differently.

Im seperating the UV baking stuff into a seperate module because its 
getting too complex.

- Cam


Comments inline

Willian Padovani Germano wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Sorry to take long to reply.
>
> Campbell Barton wrote:
>> Hey Guys, just want to get a list of scripts to remove.
>
> This still isn't the proper way to do this. As others have pointed, a 
> single developer can't know what is useful to people across the world 
> doing many different things with Blender.
>
> An example is that request by Franz about the option to let the uv 
> export script pack multiple sets in a single image. It's a *very* 
> common need for games since the first textured one appeared.
> So let's find a better way to decide these things. Scripts do need 
> work, they are not up to the quality required to be in Blender:
>
> *docs, better docs, user friendly docs
> *interfaces need some standardization and better ui practices
> *scripts should avoid failing and instead return proper error msgs
> *packing multiple functionality in a single script is not a good idea 
> in general, it's better to split in more scripts
>
> and so on.
>
> About Kloputils, indeed it needs updates and would be better if each 
> functionality could be in a separate script. Python makes this very 
> easy, just use a module to store functions needed by more than one 
> script.
>
> Klópes possibly is interested in getting feedback and updating it?
>
> I'll continue in another email...
>
> -- 
> Willian
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