This change moves the tests data files and publish folder of assets
repository to the main blender.git repository as LFS files.
The goal of this change is to eliminate toil of modifying tests,
cherry-picking changes to LFS branches, adding tests as part of a
PR which brings new features or fixes.
More detailed explanation and conversation can be found in the
design task.
Ref #137215
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/137219
This makes it so that we ship the test data for every major release
in its own separate archive. (In case someone wants to easily run the
tests for a specific older release without using git)
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/135293
The goal of this test is to try to import some critical py scripts with the
system python of the building machine.
The main target is to ensure that these py scripts remain usable by all
buildbot machines, as some of them are using fairly outdated python
versions.
Current status:
* Scripts in `build_files` and `docs` are checked.
* Some python scripts in `build_files` were 'reverted' to be compatible
with older required python version currently (3.6).
* A few scripts are excluded from the test, mostly because they use Blender's
`bpy` module, which means they are only intended to be ran with Blender's
python anyway.
* The test is only enabled for Linux buildbots currently, as they use the
oldest Python by far.
Notes:
* Some more scripts are likely to be moved around in the future.
* Whether these tests need to be enabled on windows or macos platforms remains
an open question.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/130746
The extensions system allows to extend Blender with connectivity to the internet. Right now it means Blender can
discover and install add-ons and themes directly from the internet, and notify users about their updates.
By default this is disabled (opt-in), and users can enable it the first time they try to install an extension or visit
the Prefences > Extensions tab. If this is enabled, Blender will automatically check for updates for
extensions.blender.org upon startup.
When will Blender access the remote repositories:
* Every time you open the Preferences → Extensions: ALL the enabled repositories get checked for the latest info (json)
* Every time you try to install by dragging: ALL the enabled repositories get checked for the latest info (json).
* Every time you start Blender: selected repositories get checked for the latest info (json).
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From the Blender code point of view, this means that most of the add-ons and themes originally bundled with Blender
will now be available from the online platform, instead of bundled with Blender. The exception are add-ons which are
deemed core functionality which just happened to be written as Python add-ons.
Links:
* Original Extenesions Platform Announcement: https://code.blender.org/2022/10/blender-extensions-platform/
* Extensions website: https://extensions.blender.org/
* User Manual: https://docs.blender.org/manual/en/4.2/extensions/index.html#extensions-index
* Technical specifications: https://developer.blender.org/docs/features/extensions/
* Changes on add-ons bundling: https://devtalk.blender.org/t/changes-to-add-on-bundling-4-2-onwards/34593
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This PR does the following:
* Move extensions out of experimental.
* No longer install `scripts/addons` & `scripts/addons_contrib`.
* Add `scripts/addons_core` to blender's repository.
These add-ons will still be bundled with Blender and will be always enabled in the future, with their preferences
moved to be more closely integrated with the rest of Blender. This will happen during the remaining bcon2 period.
For more details, see #121830
From scripts/addons:
* copy_global_transform.py
* hydra_storm
* io_anim_bvh
* io_curve_svg
* io_mesh_uv_layout
* io_scene_fbx
* io_scene_gltf2
* pose_library
* ui_translate
* viewport_vr_preview
Extra: bl_pkg (scripts/addons_contrib)
Note: The STL (legacy) add-on is going to be moved to the extensions platform. There is already a C++ version on core
which is enabled by default.
All the other add-ons are already available at extensions.blender.org. To use them you need to:
* Go to User Preferences > Extensions
* You will be greated with an "Online Extensions" message, click on "Enable Repository".
* Search the add-on you are looking for (e.g, Import Images as Planes).
* Click on Install
Over time their maintaince will be transferred over to the community so their development can carry on. If you used to
help maintain a bundled add-on please read: https://devtalk.blender.org/t/changes-to-add-on-bundling-4-2-onwards/34593
Ref: !121825
Listing the "Blender Foundation" as copyright holder implied the Blender
Foundation holds copyright to files which may include work from many
developers.
While keeping copyright on headers makes sense for isolated libraries,
Blender's own code may be refactored or moved between files in a way
that makes the per file copyright holders less meaningful.
Copyright references to the "Blender Foundation" have been replaced with
"Blender Authors", with the exception of `./extern/` since these this
contains libraries which are more isolated, any changed to license
headers there can be handled on a case-by-case basis.
Some directories in `./intern/` have also been excluded:
- `./intern/cycles/` it's own `AUTHORS` file is planned.
- `./intern/opensubdiv/`.
An "AUTHORS" file has been added, using the chromium projects authors
file as a template.
Design task: #110784
Ref !110783.
The assets are required to build proper Blender release, so they can not be
skipped from packing.
The packing ignores the `working` directory as it seems to be big and sounds
that it is not needed for the release.
The assets are bundled under the `release/datafiles/assets` folder in the
blender sources. This is where they will reside after switch to the Git LFS.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/106536
Caused by the changes in the submodules configuration.
Can no longer rely on the `git submodule` command to
show list of external references to be packed.
Needs to be backported to 3.5.1.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/106502
This commit implements described in the #104573.
The goal is to fix the confusion of the submodule hashes change, which are not
ideal for any of the supported git-module configuration (they are either always
visible causing confusion, or silently staged and committed, also causing
confusion).
This commit replaces submodules with a checkout of addons and addons_contrib,
covered by the .gitignore, and locale and developer tools are moved to the
main repository.
This also changes the paths:
- /release/scripts are moved to the /scripts
- /source/tools are moved to the /tools
- /release/datafiles/locale is moved to /locale
This is done to avoid conflicts when using bisect, and also allow buildbot to
automatically "recover" wgen building older or newer branches/patches.
Running `make update` will initialize the local checkout to the changed
repository configuration.
Another aspect of the change is that the make update will support Github style
of remote organization (origin remote pointing to thy fork, upstream remote
pointing to the upstream blender/blender.git).
Pull Request #104755
Add a `source_archive_complete` target for `make` that creates a source
archive including the source packages of Blender's dependencies.
This expands `make_source_archive.py` to include files from
`${BUILD_DIR}/source_archive/packages/` as well.
Reviewed By: dfelinto
Maniphest Tasks: T86124
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D10727
- Add notes on portability.
- Use encoding argument for all file IO.
- Use integer math to calculate major/minor version, while float
division should be fine prefer matching Blender.
This is a Python version of the existing `make_source_archive.sh`
script. IMO it's easier to read, and it'll also be easier to extend with
the necessary functionality for D10598.
The number of lines of code is larger than `make_source_archive.sh`, but
it has considerably less invocations of `awk` ;-) And also the filtering
is integrated, instead of forking out to Python to prevent certain files
to be included in the tarball.
Reviewed By: dfelinto, campbellbarton
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D10629
