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Re: Phatch 0.28 Mac - prerelease for testing

 

Frank

I think "dont install a second blender" is a good idea.  Let's file a bug or feature request and it'll be handled.  However for the moment this feels like "nice to have" and not "essential".

Robin

On Jun 8, 2010, at 6:36 AM, Stani wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 3:10 PM, Frank Erens <seysayux@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> Don't worry. Technically we can solve it. We can ping Blender for its
> Python version. I just want to prioritize tasks. We deal with this
> after we have Phatch fully compiled into an app
> 
> Did you file the 'test.phatch' bug already?
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Stani.
> 
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Robin
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