[Bf-committers] OpenCollada versions and the Blender build

[Gaia]

Hi;

I have looked up the OpenCollada libraries in Blender's lib folder.
I found libraries for Windows and Darwin.
And i was told that OpenCollada has no reference releases.
Currently following versions of the OpenCollada libraries
are available in the lib:

svn 768 + 1 patch lib/darwin-8.0.0-powerpc/opencollada/
svn 768 + 1 patch      lib/darwin-8.x.i386/opencollada/
svn 768 + 4 patches(*) lib/darwin-9.x.universal/opencollada/

svn 839 + 1 patch      lib/mingw32/opencollada/
svn 869 + 1 patch      lib/mingw64/opencollada/
svn 839 no patch       lib/win64/opencollada/
svn ??? patched?       lib/win64/opencollada/vc2010/
svn 839 no patch       lib/win32/opencollada/
svn ??? patched?       lib/win32/opencollada/vc2010/

(*)I found 1 patch for Collada svn 768 and 3 patches for Collada svn 839

I believe it would be more convenient to exactly know which
version of OpenCollada is used in which version of Blender.
And i think that using the same version of OpenCollada in all Blender
builds would be desirable.

I had the idea to simply take a reference copy of the OpenCollada
sources into the blender lib folder and then always build from that 
reference
point. And add an optional switch into the blender build system that
would allow to BUILD_COLLADA_LIBS

I am not sure if that is feasible. But i have no better idea except
keeping it all as it is, which sounds even worse to me.

cheers,
Gaia