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This is the 1.0 release of Alembic.
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We are confident it performs well, is feature complete, and is bug free enough
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to make the following promises:
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1. Alembic Data will be backwards compatible with any version of the API.
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2. Read performance will be the same or improve with future versions.
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3. API will remain source code compatible unless read performance can be
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greatly improved.
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4. Write performance will stay the same or improve unless read performance can
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be greatly increased.
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5. Disk space usage will stay the same or improve unless read performance can
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be greatly increased.
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6. Traversing the hierarchy must remain fast and not require much data
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loading/memory usage to guarantee on-demand loading.
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7. Reading and writing the data for a specific node will not require the data
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of any other node for on-demand loading and writing.
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8. Reading and writing a frame for a node will not require any other frame for
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on-demand loading and writing.
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There are several items that aren't in version 1.0 but will hopefully be
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included in a future patch:
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* Python bindings for the public-facing API.
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* Katana plugin
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* Houdini exporter
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Alembic is stable and usable, and any comments, criticisms or insights that you
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can provide are more than welcome. We hope you'll share your thoughts
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and feedback with us on alembic-discussion@googlegroups.com.
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To join the alembic-discussion mailing list, please visit
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http://groups.google.com/group/alembic-discussion.
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Thanks,
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The Alembic Team
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