Support name-spaced add-ons, exposed via user configurable extension
repositories.
Directories for add-ons can be added at run-time and are name-spaced to
avoid name-collisions with Python modules or add-ons from other
repositories.
This is exposed as an experimental feature "Extension Repositories".
Details:
- A `bUserExtensionRepo` type which represents a repository which is
listed in the add-ons repository.
- `JunctionModuleHandle` class to manage a package with sub-modules
which can point to arbitrary locations.
- `bpy.app.handlers._extension_repos_update_{pre/post}` internal
callbacks run before/after changes to extension repositories,
callbacks are used to sync the changes to the Python package that
exposes these to add-ons.
- The size of an add-on name has been increased so a user-defined package
prefix can be included without enforcing shorter add-on names.
- Functionality relating to package management has been left out of this
change and will be developed separately.
Further work:
- While a repository can be renamed, enabled add-ons aren't renamed.
Eventually we might want to support this although we could also
disallow renaming repositories with add-ons enabled as the name isn't
all that significant.
- Removing a repository should remove all the add-ons located in this
repository.
- Sub-module names are currently restricted to `[A-Za-z]+[A-Za-z0-9_]*`
we might want to relax this to allow unicode characters (we might
still want to disallow `-` or any characters that would prevent
attribute access in code).
Ref !110869.
Reviewed By: brecht
This commit implements described in the #104573.
The goal is to fix the confusion of the submodule hashes change, which are not
ideal for any of the supported git-module configuration (they are either always
visible causing confusion, or silently staged and committed, also causing
confusion).
This commit replaces submodules with a checkout of addons and addons_contrib,
covered by the .gitignore, and locale and developer tools are moved to the
main repository.
This also changes the paths:
- /release/scripts are moved to the /scripts
- /source/tools are moved to the /tools
- /release/datafiles/locale is moved to /locale
This is done to avoid conflicts when using bisect, and also allow buildbot to
automatically "recover" wgen building older or newer branches/patches.
Running `make update` will initialize the local checkout to the changed
repository configuration.
Another aspect of the change is that the make update will support Github style
of remote organization (origin remote pointing to thy fork, upstream remote
pointing to the upstream blender/blender.git).
Pull Request #104755
