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 - t...@blender.org - 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 <montagn...@wanadoo.fr> 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 <r...@lazydodo.com> 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 >>>>> Bf-committers@blender.org >>>>> https://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Bf-committers mailing list >>>> Bf-committers@blender.org >>>> https://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers >>>> >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> Bf-committers mailing list >> Bf-committers@blender.org >> https://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers > _______________________________________________ > Bf-committers mailing list > Bf-committers@blender.org > https://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list Bf-committers@blender.org https://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers
