[Bf-scripts-dev] final date for updating bundled script

[Willian Padovani Germano]

BF-Xand wrote:

> with the lot of continuous changes in the api (especially Mathutils), 
> scripts need to be updated. some to work, others to not showing 
> 'deprecated' warning.
> so, when is the final date for updating bundled script ?
> and when the api stops changing before release ? i mean : does the api 
> been freezed one or two weeks to completely test the script ?
>  
> i know it's a lot of work (and tanks you) but an up-to-date 
> documentation is really need.

Hi,

It's important to have scripts working fine before the 2.40 release. 
There should be another alpha release before the official Blender 2.40, 
so I guess we have at least a month, probably more. About updates in the 
API, we're in a special 'season' right now. The freeze happens naturally 
following Blender's cvs feature freeze.

Blender has evolved a lot since 2.37a, with important changes in 
armatures and meshes, for example, which require changes in BPython. So 
the team is taking the chance to update the API, too, even if it means 
breaking compatibility in some places. We plan to remove 
inconsistencies, update the internals to use newer Python/C features, 
etc. This will take a while, require more discussion, so right now 
things are not stable.

Once that is done and since it'll probably require updates in many 
scripts, the plan is to define a better structure to organize scripts, 
help them become well documented, have good interfaces and error msgs 
and work in all supported platforms. We don't want to control anything, 
of course, we just need to fight chaos here, so that scripts are better 
integrated with Blender.

--
Willian