Allright! Good to know it was given some thought, that being said, I still had to talk some users into finding the .zip distribution. Clicking 'MacOS/linux/other' apparently
isn't *that* intuitive. Also my 32 bit Ubuntu just got served a 64 bit build, so I still feel some tweaking can be done here. --Ray On 9/18/2017 2:41 AM, Julian Eisel wrote: > Just a quick update on Ray's concerns (we already discussed them in IRC): > > Term 'portable' was replaced by '.zip'. > Re hiding of other platforms, the platform is automatically detected. > So if you're running 32bit Linux, the big download button should > download Blender for 32bit Linux. > I'd say there was definitely some thought on how end users actually use it! ;) > > On 12 September 2017 at 22:48, Ray Molenkamp <[email protected]> wrote: >> Why is the .zip file advertised as 'portable' on the download page ? >> We write to the users profile folder for settings and any 3rd party >> add-ons that get installed by the user. Which is exactly what portable >> applications are not supposed to do [1] >> >> 'standalone' instead of portable will probably be better. >> >> Also it being hidden behind the 'macOS, GNU/Linux, and other platforms' >> drop down is making the 32 bit builds (and zip versions) harder to find >> for end users (people on irc were already complaining about not being >> able to find things). >> >> The website looks great, but can we give some thought on how end users >> will actually use the website? >> >> --Ray >> >> [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_application >> >> On 9/12/2017 5:54 AM, Ton Roosendaal wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> Pablo is wrapping up the blender.org pages now, official release (as in on >>> blender frontpage) is within an hour! >>> Thanks, >>> >>> -Ton- >>> >>> -------------------------------------------------------- >>> Ton Roosendaal - [email protected] - www.blender.org >>> Chairman Blender Foundation, Director Blender Institute >>> Entrepotdok 57A, 1018 AD, Amsterdam, the Netherlands >>> >>>> On 12 Sep 2017, at 12:40, Bastien Montagne <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>> Builds have been published, git repositories have been tagged, >>>> py API doc has been updated, as well as bugfixes list... [1] >>>> >>>> Thanks a lot everybody, now we may focus on 2.8! xD >>>> >>>> Cheers, >>>> Bastien >>>> >>>> [1] >>>> https://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:Ref/Release_Notes/2.79/Bug_Fixes#Release >>>> >>>> >>>> Le 11/09/2017 à 21:46, Sergey Sharybin a écrit : >>>>> Hi, >>>>> >>>>> All the builds are up at their final destination. >>>>> >>>>> We need to give some hours to let mirrors to sync, then we can modify the >>>>> download page. Release candidate builds will be removed once download page >>>>> is updated. >>>>> >>>>> On Mon, Sep 11, 2017 at 5:04 PM, Ray Molenkamp <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> windows builds are ready. >>>>>> >>>>>> --Ray >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> On 9/11/2017 4:50 AM, Bastien Montagne wrote: >>>>>>> Hi, >>>>>>> >>>>>>> We are ready for the 2.79 final release! >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Information for platform maintainers: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> - Build from the blender-2.79-release branch, >>>>>>> SHA 5bd8ac9abfa2fa5db8ddfef393fc2c4dc82ba22d >>>>>>> - Addons revision: f1c6cfa21594e7c8b7a43cd1e0653d8a812929c6 >>>>>>> - Locale revision: 1bbc9bdabe4ed26c164aef8a43ef39657dc23cfb >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Keep naming consistent with currently uploaded rc2. Make sure you're >>>>>> using tagged libraries and not latest trunk libraries. >>>>>>> As usual, tagging (as well as API docs and fixlist updates) will happen >>>>>> once all builds are up and we are sure we do not need to re-ahoy. >>>>>>> Thanks for your time and let me know when the builds are up. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Cheers, >>>>>>> Bastien >>>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>>>> Bf-committers mailing list >>>>>>> [email protected] >>>>>>> https://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers >>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>>> Bf-committers mailing list >>>>>> [email protected] >>>>>> https://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers >>>>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Bf-committers mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> https://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Bf-committers mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers >> _______________________________________________ >> Bf-committers mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers > _______________________________________________ > Bf-committers mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers
