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== How to Test ==
== How to Test ==
* Try out primary blender package
* Try out primary blender package
* try out additional packages wich requires blender
* Try out addon packages which require blender


== User Experience ==
== User Experience ==

Revision as of 15:37, 13 April 2011

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

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 changed ABI for third-party scripts.

Currently existng packages which depend on blender have to migrate to make sure, that they are works together with this new release.

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


Benefit for Fedora

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

How to Test

  • Try out primary blender package
  • Try out addon packages which require blender

User Experience

  • New improved user interface
  • new tools.

Depecdencies

There are two packages wich requires blender:

LuxRender
YafaRay


Contigency Plan

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

Documentation

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

Blender Devlopment Page

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.