431512 – media-gfx/blender-2.6x should have its own slot

Bug 431512 - media-gfx/blender-2.6x should have its own slot

Summary: media-gfx/blender-2.6x should have its own slot

Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All All

Importance:	Normal normal
Assignee:	Luca Barbato

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Reported:	2012-08-15 12:16 UTC by Watcom
Modified:	2012-08-15 13:44 UTC (History)
CC List:	4 users (show)

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Description Watcom 2012-08-15 12:16:35 UTC

Blender 2.6x and 2.49 are very different and still quite incompatible. Lots of 2.49 scripts won't work with 2.6x for example. In fact, it's quite common for users to have both versions installed. Blender 2.5 had its own slot, so should 2.6.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Diego Elio Pettenò (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2012-08-15 13:44:34 UTC

The problem is that 2.49 is not maintained upstream. And since it has problem building with modern tools and libraries, security issues, QA issues, etc etc etc there's no way we're going to maintain more than one version of Blender in parallel.

So, no slot.