Maya2009 do I bother????
Up till now I've made the Red9 compatible with Python 2.5 and therefore it'll still run in Maya2009. But with the MetaData setup I'm running the Json module which only came into Python in 2.6. So do I just say fuck it, and drop Maya2009 from support or do I include simpleJson in the packages and run that in case the import of Json failed?
Is anybody still running 2009?
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Drop it. The longer it has "support" the longer people won't move up.
ReplyDelete2009 is py2.5 and we've had to make poor choices for our API since a lot of x64 versions of modules for 2.5 just don't exist or are very hard to build and make work reliably.
Your best bet would probably be to drop support for all new versions. In doing that you should probably mention that the 2009 version has been unsupported since version X.Y.Z, but is still good for use. Some studios are still operating off it because that's the version that was out when production started. You don't want to alienate them, and an old version of a product is better than no product at all.
ReplyDeleteThink I'm going to do just that. The rest of the systems will still run in 2009, just the MetaData so I'm going to stick that in as a known limitation in the release notes.
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