[Bf-committers] Blender developer meeting notes - March 3, 2013

[Ton Roosendaal]

Hi all,

Here are the notes from our weekly meeting in irc.freenode.net #blendercoders:

1) 2.66a update

- As discussed on the bf-committers list, there's a number of important fixes 
that will go to the release branch, to be released as a 2.66a update.

- For the next 48 hours, we'll move over the fixes to branch. Tuesday afternoon 
we then check status, and likely call for the builds.

2) 2.67 targets

- Buildbot (builder.blender.org) for Mac is falling behind, Ton Roosendaal 
checks on using his system for it overnights now.

- Pynode project: Lukas Toenne worked on new preview code, needs work still. 
It's still on target for 2.67.

- Request: can someone help us to add support for Windows network UNC paths 
(like \\SomeHost\Share\blends\) in Blender?

- Sergej Reich likes to work on Rigid Body constraints visualization and tools. 
If people have ideas for how to do this, start making mockups!
A good reference:
http://ode-wiki.org/wiki/index.php?title=Manual:_Joint_Types_and_Functions

- Request: we need someone to investigate how to handle system fonts for the 
various languages, this handled for all OSes we support.

3) Other projects

Meeting ended with discussions about migration to git. :) We need to draft a 
couple of steps:
- Check on feasibility for it in general (including consensus for this by the 
core developers)
- Make a migration design and plan, and who will do this
- Define how to support and maintain in future.

This is not a short term project, but would be nice to have the first step 
defined a.s.a.p. 

Thanks,

-Ton-


Ton Roosendaal  Blender Foundation   t...@blender.orgwww.blender.org
Blender Institute   Entrepotdok 57A  1018AD Amsterdam   The Netherlands

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Re: [Bf-committers] Blender developer meeting notes - March 3, 2013

[Harley Acheson]

Hello,

 - Request: can someone help us to add support for Windows network
 UNC paths (like \\SomeHost\Share\blends\) in Blender?

The last time I checked into it there were changing all backslashes to
forward slashes (both work on Windows), probably so that we could assume
forward slash as the separator in other path functions.  So the initial
\\ then conflicts with the // we use to designate same folder as
blend. There was also an assumption that all absolute paths needed to
start with a drive letter and colon so we basically break the string with a
bunch of over-zealous sanity checks.

But I'm also pretty sure that I remember seeing at least one patch on the
tracker that fixes this and allowed UNC paths...

Harley
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Re: [Bf-committers] Blender developer meeting notes - March 3, 2013

[Harley Acheson]

 - Request: can someone help us to add support for Windows network
 UNC paths (like \\SomeHost\Share\blends\) in Blender?

Further to this, there a patch from March 2010 that seems to have
languished on the tracker...

http://projects.blender.org/tracker/index.php?func=detailaid=21836group_id=9atid=127

But if you need further help or specific help or any kind of help please
let me know. I have
worked as a Network Administrator for large Windows domains for many years
and am
also quite familiar with the Windows API.

Cheers, Harley
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