Three general questions

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Hi to all!,

First of all I want to say excuse me if this isn’t the right place to post the following three questions, I preffer not to bother the coders forums with questions at this moment with the so great pre-release event over us but… really, there’s a long time since theese three questions are flying arround my mind and you know how horrible is that feeling so…

A. Will 2.43 be compiled to work with the new Python v2.5?
B. Really, what’s the average time needed to compile an entire release (say 2.43) mins, hours,… this strange questions comes from reading in some place in bfcommiters archive where somebody said that you could always change the ‘CNTRL + Q’ planed to be the way for exiting the program for just a ‘Q’ (the way seems was done before) in the source code. I don’t know, maybe is possible to compile parts of the code (you don’t need to compile all blender over and over again for some kind of changes).
C. The last questions… Is there any difference between the ZIP and EXE installer? Am I missing anything choosing one or the other? Put in other way: Why is there two options for installing Blender (in windows)?

Thank you very much for your patience,

Francesc

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A) I don’t know
B) On my XP box 1.2gig / 256meg memory about half an hour for a full compile, using “Make”
Even if a “partial” compile is done it still takes at least 20-25 minutes on my machine, as Blender is basically one “monolithic” executable. There are some “helper” dll’s / libraries
C) Not sure, but I don’t think there’s any difference. The exe installers … as with other programs will automatically / suggest file / directory creation, but AFAIK no registry (Windows) entries are made.
Mike

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Hi again,

seems as read at bfcommiters today, that they plan to use Python v2.5 at least on windows platform maybe others too…

So, Mike_s if you want to change say the CNTRL+Q by the Q option for exiting Blender you change the code some place/s, start compiling and wait 20-30 mins… Am I right?

Thank you!

Francesc