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[Bas van Oostveen <v.oostveen@xxxxxxxxx>]

No problem, 

It's much better to do it this way :)

I will try to be online as much as possible this weekend, and I still
have my rather larger private image collection to test use cases on.

Regards,
Bas


On Fri, 2009-09-18 at 16:04 +0200, Stani wrote:
> 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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