[Bf-committers] Meeting Summary May 8th 2005

Vio vmilitaru at sympatico.ca
Thu May 12 20:40:25 CEST 2005


I guess my question was mostly theoretical. I generally like to build 
stuff myself, not use binaries.
Lately, I got into the (bad :) habit of converting makefiles to 
sconstructs for no apparent reason
(of things I download/install on my box).
vio

Gabriel Beloin wrote:

>No one ever complained about dependancy (to my knowledge) with my builds. I'm using gentoo, up to date. 
>ie. It use glibc 2.3.5.
>In a way, it's a bit on the user part to keep a up to date system. Though some distro have different level of up-to-date. I find gentoo to be the middle.
>Just a though
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>>De: Ton Roosendaal <ton at blender.org>
>>A: bf-blender developers <bf-committers at projects.blender.org>
>>Objet: Re: [Bf-committers] Meeting Summary May 8th 2005
>>Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 14:00:29 +0200
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>>Hi,
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>>Since most of people on this list are developers themselves, it might  
>>be hard to imagine... but really, we got millions of Blender downloads  
>>the past years, and all of these users just like to have an  
>>out-of-the-box running binary.
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>>I think it's our task to service Blender users that way. It also  
>>enables us to support Blender using, since we have a singular release  
>>binary as a reference. Don't forget that Blender has been growing into  
>>a very complex application, with library (version) dependencies that  
>>can easily go wrong. It's not feasible for us anymore to provide &  
>>guarantee a compile-out-of-the box Blender.
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>>What I'd like to see is someone clearly sorting that out for Linux. In  
>>the past we've really succesfully created binaries (sometimes two,  
>>depending glibc) which ran perfect for Linux users. That work consists  
>>mostly of including several system libraries as static compiled in,  
>>that's why it can run fine on newer OS upgrades.
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>>-Ton-
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>>On 12 May, 2005, at 5:42, Vio wrote:
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>>>Stupid newbie q.: what's the logic behind using chroot in the first  
>>>place?
>>>Last time I used that, about a year or two ago I believe, was for  
>>>building a LiveCD.
>>>So chroot was a must for that job.
>>>But you don't *really* need that to build blender, so why not use  
>>>*any* distro with clearly
>>>defined dependencies (ok, on some conservative Debian maybe, to keep  
>>>update-challenged
>>>users (like myself) happy)? Just wondering...
>>>-vio
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