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[Frank Erens <seysayux@xxxxxxxxx>]

2010/6/8 Stani <spe.stani.be@xxxxxxxxx>:
> On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 12:46 PM, Frank Erens <seysayux@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> A few comments.
>> 1) Robin, I think your server is unstable, because I often get "not
>> recognised" on the DMG, I need to redownload
>> 2) Instead of including Blender in the Phatch.app, I'd rather check if
>> Blender is already installed. There's probably a LaunchServices call
>> for that.
>
> Good remark. Thanks for the feedback! That would be the best option.
> However we need to go in steps. On Windows we already can use the
> installed version of Blender. But for some users it was not working as
> the Blender version was incompatible.
>
> Let's first include Blender. (It is not that big actually.) The Python
> version of Blender is quite different between Blender versions.
> Moreover Phatch uses Python 2.6, while:
> - Blender 2.50 uses Python 3.
> - Blender 2.49 uses Python 2.5
> - Blender 2.49b uses Python 2.6
> - ...
You can probably put that in a HashMap or similar construct in Python
(I don't have any experience with Python, just Java and C++/LibSylph)

> So checking if Blender is installed is not enough, we also need to
> check the Python version in Blender.
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/557403
There's very likely a LaunchServices call for getting the version of
Blender, you can use the hashmap to get the python version.

> Juho wrote already some basic code for this, but it needs more work.
> We'll fix this later, but first let's get everything to work.
>
> My highest priority is to get first a full Phatch working on the Mac
> (including Blender) and to do refinements afterwards. Making the Mac
> installer is quite a big task for Robin already, so it is better to
> keep focus:
> 1) make all the plugins work with a Phatch APP dmg (except Inkscape)
> 2) make an installer where the user can select plugins Phatch PKG
> 3) locate and use already installed plugins (Blender, Inkscape, ...)
> 4) discuss different versions Phatch light/basic/full/...
>
> Best regards,
>
> Stani
>