Attendees:
- Bastien Montagne
- Campbell Barton
- Jacques Lucke
- Philipp Oeser
- Thomas Dinges
Libraries
- New library Manifold has been accepted for inclusion.
- Meeting discussed general criteria for adding/rejecting a library
- General common sense regarding costs/benefits
- What would we not be keen to accept?
- Has a new / incompatible license.
- Newer compiler.
- Maintenance issues: is it well maintained, are we likely to need to take over maintenance?
- Significantly increases the Blender binary size.
- Add a lot of complexity to the platform maintainers.
Forward compatibility for 4.5 LTS ← 5.0
- Expectations are documented, see Blend File Compatibility
- In general opening future 5.0 blend files in 4.5 LTS should not crash or corrupt the file
Python API renaming
- Suggestion to rename code variables and RNA API for 5.0:
- Loop → Corner
- Polygons → Faces
- Ideas to better support RNA API deprecation: #127876 - RNA API: Support Proper Deprecation Process - blender - Blender Projects