What do I have to do to make sure I can efficiently run both Wrye Bash and Blender in terms of downloads and installs?
while it seems you can run wrye bash with python 2.6 (they talked about it a few pages back) I say just get 2.6 for blender while keeping 2.5 around and making a special shortcut to compile and use wrye bash with python 2.5
that's only my opinion though.
What did the guy who posted "The file didn't do what the description implied" on the TESNexus think that the description implied? I dont' see anywhere where it says Wrye Bash will buy you dinner, and that's about the only thing it doesn't do.
no you're mistaken, that's not the only thing it doesn't do, it doesn't make coffee too which is a shame considering the amount of hours I just passed building and rebuilding patches... More Seriously, I guess this is just one of those cases where the user couldn't get it to do what he wanted which isn't surprising considering the time needed to understand how that works at all.
edit: And a third question. The Wrye Bash docs say that you should install the Oblivion 1.1 patch and then copy and rename your Oblivion.esm. Is that now changed to installing the 1.2 patch and do I still name it Oblivion_1.1.esm?
no problem whatsoever here with latest oblivion patch & no renaming at all
renaming should only be required if you want to do some "Oblivion.esm Swapping" AFAIK