[Bf-committers] Blender 2.?? FreeBSD official port

[pete larabell]

Is there a point at which /usr/ports/graphics/blender would just make 2.5
instead of 2.49 then? Or would blender25 be best so blender26 could then be
added later too??

On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 1:38 AM, Campbell Barton <ideasman42 at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 8:47 PM, pete larabell <xgl.asyliax at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Sorry if this is more a question for BF itself more than the dev list. :)
> >
> > Now that Blender has pretty much stabilized and it's likely that a full
> > release is coming relatively soon, I'd like to make an updated "port" for
> > the FreeBSD ports tree. Currently "# /usr/ports/graphics/blender/make
> > install" will make 2.49.
> >
> > My proposal would be to have the port be located as
> > /usr/ports/graphics/blender25
> >
> > This would solve a lot of issues with myself building with a different
> > version of a library than what another user might have, as the ports
> system
> > would allow for automatic fetching and installation of dependencies.
> >
> > The source tarball needs a MASTER_SITE to be hosted on. Is this something
> > that BF would want on their servers or is it ok/better for me to host it
> > myself???
> >
> >
> > Cheers
> > Peter
>
> When we do releases we should do this but sometimes nobody does it.
>
> Arch linux package spec also complains of this...
> # Apparently, the blender guys refuse to release source tarballs for
> # intermediate releases that deal mainly with binaries but incorporate tiny
> # minor changes from cvs. Since I'm sick and tired of the urges of users
> that
> # look for release numbers only we make a messy PKGBUILD that can checkout
> cvs
> # tags if necessary.
>
> I'm not sure who's responsible for uploading source for releases,
> if nobody else wants to I can make a script to upload exported source
> tree and upload on release.
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