Hi, It's also my fault, I slipped making minutes of meeting 9 days ago, and forgot to include the py 3.2 topic in last meeting's notes. The issue was extensively discussed in irc for 1 or 2 weeks though. The windows/osx platform maintainers checked on it, and when all went smooth for these platforms I assumed it would be fine for Linux too.
I know for these cases we should first send a notice to this list and take a week's time before final decisions. :) Which also brings me to the point that for Linux only Ken Hughes is on the maintainer list mentioned. Might be good to add at least 1 or 2 names who should at least be involved with decisions like this? -Ton- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Ton Roosendaal Blender Foundation [email protected] www.blender.org Blender Institute Entrepotdok 57A 1018AD Amsterdam The Netherlands On 8 Mar, 2011, at 5:55, Campbell Barton wrote: > @Martin, no this wasn't discussed at the meeting, once we had other > platforms supported Ton was ok for me with the decision. > > @Diego, yep, was aware I'd get some complaints, but for updates on > non-development systems couldn't they use build made elsewhere with > py3.2 bundled?. > > > Python do a new releases fairly in-frequently, I recall when we first > moved to Py3.1 (dropping 2.x) there were hardly any packages in > distros and most Linux devs needed to build, > though I expect we have a lot more people building blender now. > > Seeing as this will happing every 1-2 years? (3.1 was released over 18 > months ago), every time this will be a similar situation where Linux > devs/builders are comfortable with having easily available packages > and suddenly don't. > > Other then waiting a few months for packages to emerge in mainstream > distros or bundling python source with blender - I can't see a way > around this. > > Nevertheless we can make this a meeting topic for next time. > > On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 12:05 AM, Diego B <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Don't take this bad, but this "python thing" is staring to be a >> little >> annoying... yes download and build/install the new >> version is just "3 command", but that is fine for one machine that is >> for development.. when you have to update >> a couple more of PCs that are begin used to work every day.. not >> really nice (not mention the servers). >> >> Of course you already know about this but anyway, just my two cents. >> >> - >> >> Diego >> >> On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 8:35 AM, Campbell Barton >> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Now we have Mac & Windows building with python 3.1 we can drop >>> support >>> for all OS's. >>> For Linux this probably means you'll need to build your own since >>> few >>> distributions support py3.2 yet. >>> >>> I've updated the instructions for building python here. >>> http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:2.5/Doc/Building_Blender/Linux/Troubleshooting#Python >>> >>> note, since our wiki update the syntax highlighting has gone a >>> strange >>> (since moving servers) so some text is easier to read when selected. >>> >>> One gotcha with 3,.2 is that python now has a suffix which depends >>> on >>> build-options so you may have libpython32mu.so or libpython32d.so, >>> where before it was simply libpython32.so. >>> >>>> From ./configure.in >>> * --with-pydebug (adds a 'd') >>> * --with-pymalloc (adds a 'm') >>> * --with-wide-unicode (adds a 'u') >>> >>> This means getting the path to includes & libs isn't so simple >>> anymore, for linux it may be best to search for all possibly >>> combinations of d/m/u to detect the python version, but for now >>> these >>> need to be set manually. >>> >>> -- >>> - Campbell >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Bf-committers mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> Bf-committers mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers >> > > > > -- > - Campbell > _______________________________________________ > Bf-committers mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers > _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers
