Use suggested upstream Python version
| Task Info (Flyspray) | |
|---|---|
| Opened By | v (draic) |
| Task ID | 78531 |
| Type | General Gripe |
| Project | Community Packages |
| Category | Packages |
| Version | None |
| OS | All |
| Opened | 2023-05-16 10:40:56 UTC |
| Status | Assigned |
| Assignee | Sven-Hendrik Haase (Svenstaro) |
| Assignee | freswa (frederik) |
| Assignee | Filipe Laíns (FFY00) |
Details
Description: Blender is distributed with a static python version per release. This is done because Blender does some changes to Python in this special version to be able to address parts of Blender and it's objects via Python better. It also ensures interoperability for all Blender addons on all platforms. Several addons might not work with other Python versions and certain features are only possible with the modified Python that Blender distributes.
Only on Arch the repository package will use systems python which leads to several addons with broken features or refusing to start at all. I need to rely on using the binary download that Blender.org offers and the version from the repository is not usable.