Fix a BAT error that arises when submitting a job from a Windows
workstation to a Shaman flamenco system. BAT expects an absolute path,
but on Windows systems, absolute paths begin with a drive letter.
This patch adds an arbitrary drive letter, and later removes it once the
relative paths have been computed.
Reviewed by: sybren
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D16084
This replaces the "Development" link, as "Get Involved" is also about
development already. The "Get Involved" page now links with a CTA button
to the "Development" page.
FFmpeg was put in the wrong location in the release packages for Linux and
macOS. It should have been in a subdirectory called `tools` so that the
Worker finds it, but it was in the top-level directory of the package.
This is now fixed.
The priority of an existing can now be changed. It will be taken into
account when assigning tasks to workers, but it will not reassign tasks
that are already active.
Remove the assumption that a SocketIO job update without "previous state"
set is always an indication that it's about a new job. Soon job priority
will be changeable, and then this assumption will no longer hold.
When the Manager was shutting down while the sleep scheduler was running, it
could cause a null pointer dereference. This is now doubly solved:
- `worker.Identifier()` is now nil-safe, as in, `worker` can be `nil` and
it will still return a sensible string.
- failure to apply the sleep schedule due to the context closing is not
logged as error any more.
Blender not being found can be reported via various errors (this should be
reworked in the 'blender finder API' at some point). `exec.ErrNotFound` is
returned when Blender cannot be found on `$PATH`, which is something that's
absolutely fine. This is now logged less dramatically.
Avoid the word "error" in logging when Blender cannot be found. Typically
these are warnings, and having the word "error" there makes people think
otherwise.
Sometimes the setup assistant doesn't work (port already in use, Blender
not installed), so having an example file will make it possible to still
start Flamenco.
BAT-packing is a multi-threaded operation, so messages about its progress
are queued up in a thread-safe manner. The modal operator was only handling
4 messages per second, causing major slowdowns when there are lots of
small files to be processed. This is now done much faster, and thus the
UI shouldn't lag behind of the actual submissions progress.
Fix T100757 by reducing the log level to "info" when Blender writes output
to a file format the Worker cannot handle. Such cases are expected, and
now no longer result in an error message.
When doing two-way variable replacement, if the variable has a Windows
path (i.e. backslashes) also do a match for the value with forward slashes.
In other words, if a path `Y:/shared/...` comes in, and the variable value
is (correctly) `Y:\shared\...`, it will be seen as a match.
The FAQ section was quite invisible, because it was sitting between the
much bigger Usage and Development sections. It's now easier to spot in the
TOC.
When a submitted job is refused because of a mismatched etag, there is
now a more explanatory error logged on the Manager. The website also has
an entry in the FAQ for this, as I expect more people to run into this
issue when they upgrade Flamenco.
