[Bf-committers] New project, let's move on!

[Frederick Lee]

On Fri, Dec 13, 2002 at 04:17:43PM +0100, Ton Roosendaal wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> The amount of time involved in getting Blender autoconfed is disturbing. 
> Although I'm happy with the efforts people put in it, there's no clear 
> outlook when it will be finished. I've had discussions with Kent Mein 
> and Hans Lambermont on this topic yesterday, and they agree on the 
> following:

I'm also disturbed by the time involved.  For me, the biggest challenge
is trying to figure out just what files are supposed to go together to
form what.  The NaN makefiles are, frankly, write-only text.  It's
extremely difficult to read it.  The "base" Blender modeller was easy
enough to figure out without reading the NaN build stuff, but the game
engine and standalone player are being real PITAs.

I think one thing that would help is the captured output of a successful
compile run under the NaN system.  I could never get this to finish
properly, and the make output at least tells exactly what has happened.

If anyone that has the NaN system working, could I get the output of a
clean recompile redirected to a file ("make > make.log") and sent to me?

[snip]

> I would like to appoint a few 'moderators' for this stage, for each OS 
> (or Blender version). The moderator will be able to provide guidlines, 
> and can accept/reject code submissions from others.
> 
> MacOSX: Stefan Gartner (sgefant)
> Sun Solaris: Kent Mein (sirdude)
> Linux: Frederick Lee (phaethon)
> IRIX: John Walton (JWalton)
> FreeBSD: Hans Lambermont
> Windows: Maarten Gribnau (or Simon Clitherow, aphex, please let me know)
> 
> The people above: please let me know if you can agree with it. And if 
> so, communicate about what has to be done, when it will be done, and who 
> will do it!

I can live with that, but I'm not sure how much time I can dedicate.
I'm involved in other software projects as well.  Blender catches my
fancy since it intersects pretty strongly with my Quake 3 game
modification (3D modelling + anim); I have a vested interest in seeing
Blender go places.

> Can we target this before Christmas? I just *love* Christmas deadlines! :-)

Can do.

> Thanks,
> 
> -Ton-
[snip blender/SF/gforce bit]
> _____________________________________________________
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-Fred <phaethon>