[arch-general] What to do about the "blender" package?

[Sven-Hendrik Haase]

On 20.07.2009 15:46, Andrei Thorp wrote:
> Excerpts from Allan McRae's message of Sun Jul 19 00:00:53 -0400 2009:
>   
>> So the package is out-of-date and the new version does not build?  Could 
>> be a reason why it is not updated...
>>     
>
> I recall Blender not having support for python 2.6 at some point (while
> we had 2.6). It seems some folks have now successfully built Blender
> with 2.6 support, but it seeems woefully unofficial.
>
> I wonder what can be done about that.
>   
Doesn't Blender 2..49a have Python 2.6 support by default? At least the
Windows downloads on blender.org come with Python 2.5 OR Python 2.6.