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

2010-07-15 Thread Campbell Barton
On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 7:33 PM, Dan Eicher d...@trollwerks.org wrote: On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 9:36 AM, W. Scott Meador ws_mea...@yahoo.comwrote: Different topic - would love to see Blender package its libraries on Linux the way it does for OSX. Anything but that, just link them

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

2010-07-15 Thread Ton Roosendaal
Hi, I'd go for option three (release within a week), and do another update end of august or early september. We will get a myriad of reports to handle anyway! This version won't be advertised as final or stable. -Ton-

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

2010-07-15 Thread Campbell Barton
applied basic changes like 'selected' - 'select' that are most likely to break scripts, updated addons and our own scripts. (Make that Sintel showing on Sunday). Good we get to do this with a bit more time, not nice to do this work in crunch time :) On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 7:34 PM, Ton

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

2010-07-14 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

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

2010-07-14 Thread Vilem Novak
Od: jmso...@free.fr Předmět: Re: [Bf-committers] Blender 2.5x beta status Datum: 14.7.2010 10:42:41 +1 for an uncomplicated .zip approach! jms ___ Bf-committers mailing list Bf-committers@blender.org http

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

2010-07-14 Thread Luke Frisken
apps do it, so why should this be confusing? I guess I would rather be confused by a zip on mac. as said, it takes the same amount of clicks. So, my voice is for .dmg Původní zpráva Od: jmso...@free.fr Předmět: Re: [Bf-committers] Blender 2.5x beta status Datum

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

2010-07-14 Thread Mike Belanger
why should this be confusing? I guess I would rather be confused by a zip on mac. as said, it takes the same amount of clicks. So, my voice is for .dmg Původní zpráva Od: jmso...@free.fr Předmět: Re: [Bf-committers] Blender 2.5x beta status Datum: 14.7.2010

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

2010-07-14 Thread W. Scott Meador
for shared cluster use where installing libraries could break other researcher's apps. Thanks, Scott Message: 7 Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2010 09:04:22 -0500 From: Mike Belanger mikejamesbelan...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [Bf-committers] Blender 2.5x beta status To: bf-blender developers bf-committers

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

2010-07-14 Thread Diego B
...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [Bf-committers] Blender 2.5x beta status To: bf-blender developers bf-committers@blender.org Message-ID:    aanlktilxxu6ojphqyexw0mn8ipmpyazonwjjkaalf...@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-2 'If you are a real mac user, you use .dmg images very

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

2010-07-14 Thread Dan Eicher
On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 9:36 AM, W. Scott Meador ws_mea...@yahoo.comwrote: Different topic - would love to see Blender package its libraries on Linux the way it does for OSX. Anything but that, just link them statically. ___ Bf-committers mailing

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=detailaid=22816group_id=9atid=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,

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 and

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 btolp...@internode.on.net wrote: William Reynish wrote: I think zip is much simpler to

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 and

[Bf-committers] Blender 2.5x beta status

2010-07-10 Thread Ton Roosendaal
Hi all, According to the commits, the last of the missing beta targets is now in svn (install paths). That means we can get ready for an official beta release. With beta as in feature complete, not yet stable. :) We will need to do some documentation efforts on precisely defining what