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Update to Blender 2.5 serires

This feature bring blender-2.57 or later on Fedora 16. the aim of the blender 2.5 project is to provide a new release of blender with a new desingned UI. Enhanced tools and animations.

Owner

  • Name: s4504kr
  • EMail: Jochen@herr-schmitt.de

current Status

  • Targedted Release: Fedora 16
  • Last Update: 2011-04-12
  • Percentage of completion: 30%

Detailed Description

Blender-2.5 provide a new designed UI and tools. It's based on python-3.2 and have a chenaged ABI for third-party scripts.

this caused, the the currently existng packages which depend on blender nneds rework to make sure, that they are works together with this new release.

One packaging releated change is the move of the script directory to %{_datadir}/blender/<BLENDERVERSION>/scripts. Additionaly there are no need for a wrapper which created symlinks in the ~/.blender directory anymore.


Benefit for Fedora

Providing a release of blender which was proted to python-3.2 or above.

How to Test

  • Try out primary blender package
  • try out additional packages wich requires blender

User Experience

  • New improve user interface
  • new tools.

Depecdencies

There are two packages wich requires blender

LuxRender
YafaRay


Contigency Plan

Revert to blender-2.49b. Provie additional blender25 package if possible.

Documentation

Documentation may be found on the developement page of the blender project:


[1]

Release Notes

Blender-2.5 provides a new release of blender with a new desingned user Interface and tools which is based on python-3.2.