[Bf-python] A python25.zip file is needed for the current CVS

[Joseph Greenawalt]

Wow, OK.  Sorry to bother you.

On 2/28/07, Stephen Swaney <sswaney at centurytel.net> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 09:40:38AM +1100, Matt Ebb wrote:
> >
> > For an artist to download Blender and by default not be able to
> > import or export anything would be an enormous turn-off and point of
> > confusion. These days I think we should be doing as much as we can to
> > encourage interoperability and make it easier for people to include
> > Blender in their pipelines. We shouldn't be making this harder.
>
>
> The burden of installing python is similar to the effort of installing
> blender.  If they can manage to find, download and install blender, they
> should be able to manage python.  For those who find google problematic
> for finding things, we can provide a download link to www.python.org.
>
> Right now, we provide windozers with a half-assed version of python - the
> bare minimum needed to run our distributed scripts.  Third-party scripts
> may not run due to missing modules.  If the artists start learning python
> on their own, they may run into the missing module problem.  This seems
> much more confusing than having to download and install something.
>
> And no, we do not want to get into the business of providing a complete
> python installation package.  The folks at www.python.org do that just
> fine, thanks.
>
> --
> Stephen Swaney
> sswaney at centurytel.net
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