Is it time for a new PyPRP release?

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Re: Is it time for a new PyPRP release?

Postby Marcello » Sun Mar 22, 2009 11:24 am

For those coordinating all the efforts: feel free to contact me to work on tutorials, both new ones and old ones. I'm more than happy to rewrite some of my own or actually finish one or two that I never got to finish (this time all new and improved). I'd also be more than happy to testdrive tutorials by others by making some test ages and stuff.
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Re: Is it time for a new PyPRP release?

Postby boblishman » Sun Mar 22, 2009 4:00 pm

Oh ... one little thing ... to whoever compiles the next release ... when you zip up the files, please do NOT have the /scr path in the zip ... as it simply causes unnecessary confusion (for first time installers) ... ;)
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Re: Is it time for a new PyPRP release?

Postby Chacal » Sun Mar 22, 2009 8:31 pm

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Re: Is it time for a new PyPRP release?

Postby Trylon » Mon Mar 23, 2009 12:21 am

maybe we could make an installer program for a change :)
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Re: Is it time for a new PyPRP release?

Postby Lontahv » Mon Mar 23, 2009 2:39 am

...with Python TK. :D
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Re: Is it time for a new PyPRP release?

Postby Aikijitsu » Mon Mar 23, 2009 5:09 am

boblishman wrote:Oh ... one little thing ... to whoever compiles the next release ... when you zip up the files, please do NOT have the /scr path in the zip ... as it simply causes unnecessary confusion (for first time installers) ... ;)


Guilty. I want to continue the blender tutorial, but I can't find that cursed file path to put in PyPRP. (I'll try again later.)
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Re: Is it time for a new PyPRP release?

Postby Christian Walther » Mon Mar 23, 2009 11:43 am

boblishman wrote:Oh ... one little thing ... to whoever compiles the next release ... when you zip up the files, please do NOT have the /scr path in the zip ... as it simply causes unnecessary confusion (for first time installers) ... ;)

Good point. Putting all the Python files at the top level of the archive would make it a bit hard to find the Readme, documentation etc. though. Perhaps giving that folder a more human-readable name, like "scripts", would help already?

Along these lines, I've also wondered whether giving the thing a proper Python package structure would make the heap of loose files a bit more manageable.

Trylon wrote:maybe we could make an installer program for a change :)

I strongly dislike installers myself, but I know that Windows users are trained to expect them. If that was meant seriously, then please do it as an addition to the plain manual-install package, not as a replacement.

Aikijitsu wrote:I want to continue the blender tutorial, but I can't find that cursed file path to put in PyPRP.

We should be able to help with that, but let's not do that here in this thread, it's long enough already. :) Please start a new thread, or PM me or somebody else, or ask on IRC. Edit: There's some discussion about it in this thread.
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Re: Is it time for a new PyPRP release?

Postby Trylon » Mon Mar 23, 2009 3:12 pm

Christian Walther wrote:
Trylon wrote:maybe we could make an installer program for a change :)

I strongly dislike installers myself, but I know that Windows users are trained to expect them. If that was meant seriously, then please do it as an addition to the plain manual-install package, not as a replacement.


It was meant seriously, and it was meant as an addition only ;) It could include all the prerequisities (excluding blender ofcourse), so new users wouldn't have to install a gazillion plugins to python before finally running pyprp
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Re: Is it time for a new PyPRP release?

Postby Trylon » Wed Mar 25, 2009 11:39 am

I'd be in favour of starting Christian Walther's plan of action, and organizing a documentation project in parallel with it.
So, how about getting it started?
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Re: Is it time for a new PyPRP release?

Postby Aloys » Wed Mar 25, 2009 4:33 pm

Sounds good to me. :)
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