Re: [Bf-committers] Blender 2.5x beta status

2010-07-13 Thread Ton Roosendaal
Hi devs, Any showstoppers in sight for a new official build? Joshua: can you check bug 22816? http://projects.blender.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=22816&group_id=9&atid=498 Update on the sculpt patch: Brecht and Nicholas don't have time for extensive reviews, but user reports from the

Re: [Bf-committers] Blender 2.5x beta status

2010-07-13 Thread Damien Plisson
My build shell scripts are warming up for the 3 mac builds :) BTW, do we keep .zip files or do we go with standard mac .dmg ? .dmg are roughly 10% bigger but enable nice features such as background image, and explicit installation (copy to Application folder). Damien Le 13 juil. 2010 à 20:53, T

[Bf-committers] regression test results

2010-07-13 Thread Tom M
Here are the results of the regression tests. If you update the test to work with 2.5x please commit it. they can be found in /lib/tests (or is it /lib/test ) LetterRip animation        array3          - good        bowl            - good        controller2     - broken?        CtrlObject    

[Bf-committers] Meeting Minutes July 11, 2010

2010-07-13 Thread Tom M
=Current Projects= After feedback from artists the proposal from brecht on dropping some features has been tabled for now. = Google Summer of Code = Midterm evaluations this week - both mentors and students need to fill them out. 12th-16th Midterm evaluations are done via Melange [1]. Starting

Re: [Bf-committers] Blender 2.5x beta status

2010-07-13 Thread William Reynish
Hi Damien, This mail is really an aside for Mac installation. I would vouch for not using disc images for distributing apps. Even though it's quite common in the Mac applications community I think it's best to avoid it. This article by UX designer Lukas Mathis explains precisely why one should

Re: [Bf-committers] Blender 2.5x beta status

2010-07-13 Thread Benjamin Tolputt
William Reynish wrote: > I think zip is much simpler to understand and manage for the user, it's also > faster too (no need to mount, drag-to-apps, unmount). > >From a non-technical standpoint (my wife), installing from a zip is not an issue. Simply double click the zip in the downloads dir an

Re: [Bf-committers] Blender 2.5x beta status

2010-07-13 Thread Mike Belanger
Have to agree with William and Benjamin. The mounting/unmounting disk-image thing is probably from OSX's Unix background, not designed for people at all. On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 8:43 PM, Benjamin Tolputt wrote: > William Reynish wrote: > > I think zip is much simpler to understand and manage fo

Re: [Bf-committers] Blender 2.5x beta status

2010-07-13 Thread Mats Holmberg
Sadly many people still think of "installation" as being something mythical, even a bit frightening, no matter what the platform is. If we can counter that, great. +1 for an uncomplicated .zip approach! -mats On 14.7.2010, at 6.14, Mike Belanger wrote: > Have to agree with William and Benjamin

Re: [Bf-committers] Blender 2.5x beta status

2010-07-13 Thread Benjamin Tolputt
Mats Holmberg wrote: > Sadly many people still think of "installation" as being something mythical, > even a bit frightening, no matter what the platform is. If we can counter > that, great. +1 for an uncomplicated .zip approach! > And on some platforms for some applications it is (mythical a

Re: [Bf-committers] Blender 2.5x beta status

2010-07-13 Thread Mats Holmberg
I'm a mac user, but have never like the .dmg approach. It is probably done with good intentions in mind, but makes a really simple thing (copying a directory) unnecessarily complicated. I'd rather see the most simple solution, accompanied by just as simple an explanation =) I came from Linux to