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[Stani <spe.stani.be@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Bas,

That would be really great, but unfortunately it is too late to
include non-tested core features such as multiprocessing. The last
weeks we have been working very intensely to fix as much bugs as we
can, which we discovered thanks to Nadia's test suite. The rules for
Ubuntu are very strict. In fact we are two weeks too late (the last
karmic alpha has been released already). Due to previous good
experience with Phatch, they probably will grant me a Feature Freeze
exception to include Phatch in Karmic. It is not obvious at all and I
don't want to take any risk.

That said, I would really appreciate that you work on it anyway so we
can include it an 0.2.x update or 0.3.  After Karmic we will work as
well on the Windows version and Mac version. If your implementation
proofs stable by than we can include it.

In case you have some extra time before monday, feel free on irc to
offer yourself. Maybe you could help testing or fixing some bugs. But
it is also fine if you work on the MP.

So keep on going!

Stani

BTW are you coming to the python meeting on thursday? I'm planning to
present a little bit about phatch 0.2 It would be good to meet there.

On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 2:37 PM, Bas van Oostveen <v.oostveen@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I think I could patch / work on / have a very minimal multi-threaded /
> multi-process version this weekend.
>
> But I would not consider such a patch written in a weekend ready to be
> the default. But it could be a command line (or maybe GUI) parameter.
>
> Specially multi-threaded is (as weird as it might sound) easier to
> implement and as far as I've seen also yield significant speed
> improvements. (Fully realising and agreeing with other people's points
> about contention (which is hard to track) and the general dangers of
> threaded code :)
>
> I will try and look at current patch and try port my previous MP work
> into a minimalistic patch.
>
> After that you can always decide to incorperate or not this into a
> release.
>
> Regards,
> Bas
>
> On Thu, 2009-09-17 at 22:49 +0200, Stani wrote:
>> Hi,
>> I spoke with ubuntu-motu. If we don't finish Phatch this weekend we
>> will miss Ubuntu Karmic. I really want Phatch in Ubuntu so I will
>> reserve the whole weekend to do as much as I can of my todo list.
>> Juho, please decide what you can do of the blender action before
>> monday and polish it. Igor if you still have some comments/artwork
>> your deadline is saturday.
>> Best regards,
>> Stani
>>
>
>



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