no-crash, no-face - feature committed, also saves on undo memory and
disk space :).

save as legacy blend still works of course.

On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 10:18 PM, Ton Roosendaal <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> When I reviewed BMesh todos with Campbell I specifically asked for ensuring 
> we don't crash old binaries. The software of course cannot read the bmesh 
> faces (showing emppty mesh), but files should not crash on it. You get the 
> warning "expect loss of data" first of course.
>
> -Ton-
>
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> Ton Roosendaal  Blender Foundation   [email protected]    www.blender.org
> Blender Institute   Entrepotdok 57A  1018AD Amsterdam   The Netherlands
>
> On 2 Jan, 2012, at 11:13, Matt Ebb wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 9:04 PM, Campbell Barton <[email protected]>wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> I think this is enough - we could disable loading the file at all and
>>> then blender wont crash - or only allow loading when --debug is passed
>>> for people who know what there doing. not sure its worthwhile -
>>> people are warned and they can upgrade there blender.
>>>
>>
>> I think it's very worthwhile for blender to not crash if it can be avoided
>> - preventing the file from loading is a much better scenario than crashing
>> and losing everything. Particularly when there still isn't a warning yet to
>> save changes in your existing file, when opening up a new one.
>>
>> cheers
>>
>> Matt
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