It has been deprecated since at least macOS 10.9 and fully removed in 10.12.
I am unsure if we should remove it only in 2.8. But you cannot build blender with it supported when using a modern xcode version anyway so I would tend towards just removing it also for 2.79 if that ever happens.
Reviewers: mont29, dfelinto, juicyfruit, brecht
Reviewed By: mont29, brecht
Subscribers: Blendify, brecht
Maniphest Tasks: T52807
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D2333
- Use indices instead of character args.
- Use numbered macros instead of variadic args.
Parsing using rtags used over 11gb of memory. While this should be
resolved upstream (report as #1053), the extra complexity didn't give
any real advantage.
Operators and their properties are two different types
Previously both operators and their properties are added
causing C operators to access the properties, Python the classes.
Favor consistency in this case so only Python classes are added.
This was meant to be generic but introduced possible type errors
and unnecessary complication.
Replace with typed PyC_Tuple_PackArray_* functions.
Also add PyC_Tuple_Pack_* macro which replaces some uses of
Py_BuildValue, with the advantage of not having to parse a string.
Python's C-API doesn't provide functions to get
int's at specific integer sizes.
Leaving the caller to check for overflow,
which ended up being ignored in practice.
Add API functions that convert int/uint 8/16/32/64, also bool.
Raising overflow exception for unsupported ranges.
The documentation for the bpy.app.handlers.scene_update_{pre,post}
handlers states that they're called "on updating the scenes data".
However, they're called even when the data hasn't changed. Of course
such handlers are useful, but the documentation should reflect the
current behaviour.
Reviewers: mont29, sergey
Subscribers: Blendify
Maniphest Tasks: T46329
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D1535
Regression in D1812: PyDriver variables as Objects
Taking the Python representation is nice in general
but for enums it would convert them into strings,
breaking some existing drivers.
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
