A lot of files were missing copyright field in the header and
the Blender Foundation contributed to them in a sense of bug
fixing and general maintenance.
This change makes it explicit that those files are at least
partially copyrighted by the Blender Foundation.
Note that this does not make it so the Blender Foundation is
the only holder of the copyright in those files, and developers
who do not have a signed contract with the foundation still
hold the copyright as well.
Another aspect of this change is using SPDX format for the
header. We already used it for the license specification,
and now we state it for the copyright as well, following the
FAQ:
https://reuse.software/faq/
Windows file associations using ProgID, needed because of the launcher.
This fixes "pin to taskbar" and Recent Documents lists, allow per-
version jump lists and an "Open with" list with multiple versions.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/107013
Adds a submenu to the File Browser selected item context menu that
allows opening the item or viewing the location in an OS browsing
window. On Win32 also allows other actions like editing, searching,
opening command prompt, etc.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/104531
The new Xcode 14.1 brings the new Apple Clang compiler which
considers sprintf unsafe and geenrates deprecation warnings
suggesting to sue snprintf instead. This only happens for C++
code by default, and C code can still use sprintf without any
warning.
This changes does the following:
- Whenever is trivial replace sprintf() with BLI_snprintf.
- For all other cases use the newly introduced BLI_sprintf
which is a wrapper around sprintf() but without warning.
There is a discouragement note in the BLI_sprintf comment to
suggest use of BLI_snprintf when the size is known.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D16410
Use a shorter/simpler license convention, stops the header taking so
much space.
Follow the SPDX license specification: https://spdx.org/licenses
- C/C++/objc/objc++
- Python
- Shell Scripts
- CMake, GNUmakefile
While most of the source tree has been included
- `./extern/` was left out.
- `./intern/cycles` & `./intern/atomic` are also excluded because they
use different header conventions.
doc/license/SPDX-license-identifiers.txt has been added to list SPDX all
used identifiers.
See P2788 for the script that automated these edits.
Reviewed By: brecht, mont29, sergey
Ref D14069
Accessing the default directory in the file selector
would crash if HOME was undefined.
Add BKE_appdir_folder_default_or_root which never returns NULL.
When doing a non portable build of blender, the executable
blender-thumbnailer would be installed in two locations:
/usr/bin/
/usr/
While cleaning up, also make the blender thumbnailer dll optional on
windows to bring the logic in line with what it is on linux and mac.
Reviewed By: Campbell Barton, Ray molenkamp
Differential Revision: http://developer.blender.org/D13014
This patch allows Windows users to specify that their current blender
installation should be used to create thumbnails and be associated
with ".blend" files. This is done from Preferences / System. The only
way to do this currently is from the command-line and this is sometimes
inconvenient.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D10887
Reviewed by Brecht Van Lommel
This patch fixes a long-standing complaint from users:
the console window shortly flashing when they start
blender.
This is done by adding a new executable called
blender-launcher.exe which starts blender.exe while
hiding the console.
Any command line parameters given to blender-launcher
will be passed on to blender.exe so it'll be a drop
in replacement.
Starting blender.exe on its own will still function as
a proper console app so no changes required here for
users that use blender for batch processing.
Notable changes:
Registering blender (-R switch) will now register
blender-launcher as the preferred executable.
This patch updates the installer and updates the
shortcuts to start blender-launcher.exe rather
than blender.exe
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D11094
Reviewed by: brecht, harley
Previously this was done in the deps builder due to the fact we needed
both 32 and 64 bit versions of this dll and CMAKE does not support that
in a single build folder. Now that 32 bit support has been dropped, this
can be safely moved into the codebase.
Reviewers: brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D5633
BF-admins agree to remove header information that isn't useful,
to reduce noise.
- BEGIN/END license blocks
Developers should add non license comments as separate comment blocks.
No need for separator text.
- Contributors
This is often invalid, outdated or misleading
especially when splitting files.
It's more useful to git-blame to find out who has developed the code.
See P901 for script to perform these edits.
The Issue
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For a long time now MinGW has been unsupported and unmaintained and at this point,
it looks like something that we should just leave behind and move on.
Why Remove
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One of the big motivations for MinGW back in the day is that it was free compared to MSVC which was licensed based.
However, now that this is no longer true we have basically stopped updating the need CMake files.
Along with the CMake files, there are several patches to the extern libs needed to make this work. For example, see:
https://developer.blender.org/diffusion/B/browse/master/extern/carve/patches/mingw_w64.patch
If we wanted to keep MinGW then we would need to make more custom patches to the external libs and
this is not something our platform maintainers are willing to do.
For example, here is the patches needed to build python: https://github.com/Alexpux/MINGW-packages/tree/master/mingw-w64-python3
Fixes T51301
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D2648
Also they did not work when using blender -R from
command line in 64-bit systems.
Issue was checking for wrong define which would
cause code to detect if the blender executable
functions under 32 bit emulation.
For 64bit executables this is false, leading
blender to believe we are operating under a 32bit
system, and registration would try to register
the 32bit thumbnailer.
This 32 bit dll is (correctly) missing for local
installs and from the new installer, thus no thumbnails.
now blenlib/BLI doesn't depend on any blenkern/BKE functions,
there are still some bad level includes but these are only to access G.background and the blender version define.
