[Bf-committers] Linux vs Window vs Irix vs etc.. Should be put in machine dependent bin..

[Hans Lambermont]

Kiernan J Holland wrote:

> How much of the blender source code is machine dependent, 

very little

> and how much is not. The machine dependent stuff over time should be
> extracted from the source and the rest should be interfacing
> abstracted layers that connect to the machine dependent stuff, so that
> we don't have a package that only works one way on one platform and
> not the same way on another.

Yep, that's difficult, but it should be our goal indeed. Interesting for
multi-platform render farms ;-)

> Any machine dependent code should not be in the blender source but
> should be represented as plugins.

That's a bit overdone I'm afraid. Length of integers etc already vary
from machine to machine ... Not to mention the randomizers (does windows
finally have a /dev/urandom equivalent ?).

Hans
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