[Bf-python] Support listing of multiple versions of the same addon

[Nathan Vegdahl]

> How about copy the blender folder and then make a new shortcut to that
> "version", there one can use different AddOns.

Sure, this is a decent cludge for some of the use-cases for the time
being.  My proposal is that we shouldn't need such a cludge, and that
users shouldn't be burdened with having to have multiple installs of
Blender just to install multiple versions of addons.  And it gets
pretty ridiculous if you consider a user who wants even just a few
permutations of different addon's various versions.

--Nathan


On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 3:12 AM, Carsten Wartmann <cw at blenderbuch.de> wrote:
>
> Am 26.02.2013 19:23, schrieb Nathan Vegdahl:
> > A topic that has come up over on bf-committers is the possibility of
> > supporting multiple co-installed versions of the same addon, without it
> > showing up as a conflict in the addon browser.
>
> How about copy the blender folder and then make a new shortcut to that
> "version", there one can use different AddOns.
>
> Of course there is the problem with the preferences stored into the user
> folder. On Linux and with my own builds it stores them into the build
> folder, so no problem here.
>
> Carsten
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