Sybren A. Stüvel ac5bb5e378 Remove assumption {jobs} only exists when Shaman is enabled
Manager always creates an implicit variable `{jobs}`. This used to be
Shaman-dependent, but now it's always there (has been for a while). This
is now reflected in an add-on comment, and in an extra unit test.
2022-07-05 18:19:49 +02:00
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2022-03-25 14:10:26 +01:00

Flamenco 3 Blender add-on

Setting up development environment

~/workspace/blender-git/build_linux/bin/3.1/python/bin/python3.9 -m venv --upgrade-deps venv
. ./venv/bin/activate
pip install poetry
poetry install

Generating the OpenAPI client

  1. Make sure Java is installed (so java --version shows something sensible).
  2. In the root directory of the repository, run make generate-py

Type annotations and lazy imports

This add-on tries to only load Python packages from wheel files when necessary. Loading things from wheels is tricky, as they basically pollute the sys.modules dictionary and thus can "leak" to other add-ons. This can cause conflicts when, for example, another add-on is using a different version of the same package.

The result is that sometimes there are some strange hoops to jump through. The most obvious one is for type annotations. This is why you'll see code like:

if TYPE_CHECKING:
    from .bat_interface import _PackThread
else:
    _PackThread = object

This makes it possible to declare a function with def func() -> _PackThread, without having to load bat_interface immediately at import time.