Yes very happy to hear this..Well done guys.... Sajeev
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 4:07 AM, Jason Porath <[email protected]> wrote: > Congrats, Chad. Richly deserved. > > -J > > > On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 2:14 PM, Chad Dombrova <[email protected]> wrote: > > By now you may have seen the announcements for Maya 2011. It's my > pleasure > > to tell you that the rumors are true: PyMEL will be shipped with Maya, > right > > alongside the maya python package. Those of you still sitting on the > fence > > can now safely get off :) > > PyMEL is still open source and will stay that way. the PyMEL team > > is responsible for delivering a stable version of PyMEL to Autodesk for > each > > release, and PyMEL's unit test suite is now run as part of Maya's testing > > framework, so if Autodesk makes a change that break something, we'll all > > know about it. > > The version of PyMEL included with 2011 will be 1.0.0, but we will still > be > > doing point releases that you can install over top of the pre-installed > > version in the usual ways. we actually have a 1.0.1 with fixes discovered > > since the 2011 code freeze that we'll release shortly. the current set > of > > installation instructions should work across all versions, including > 2011. > > those of you who have tested 1.0 now have some insight into why the > > installation became more complex: pymel 1.0 comes with modifications to > the > > maya package that are now standard with 2011, but which need to be > installed > > for prior versions of Maya. > > the official repo for PyMEL is now on github: > > http://github.com/LumaPictures/pymel > > git and github are a great way for various users and studios to > collaborate > > on this project. if you go to "network" you can already see we have > several > > users who have forked the pymel project and put in their own features and > > bug fixes, which we then review and pull in to the main repo (andrew, > i'll > > get to yours soon, i swear!). I hope that you and your studio will do the > > same. > > the official homepage and issue tracker for PyMEL is still > > googlecode: http://code.google.com/p/pymel/ > > i know this isn't an academy award or anything, but i want to say thanks > to > > all those who have aided in pymel's development -- Olivier Renouard, Ofer > > Koren, Paul Molodowitch, Ian Jones, and Andrew Gerard -- and to all the > > hard-core users out there who have been singing its praises, and also to > the > > folks at Autodesk, especially John Creson and Chris Grebeldinger who have > > been cheering for PyMEL for awhile now. > > -chad > > > > -- > > http://groups.google.com/group/python_inside_maya > > -- > http://groups.google.com/group/python_inside_maya > -- http://groups.google.com/group/python_inside_maya
