[Bf-committers] Propose to reduce default feature set (*nix dev builds)

[Thomas Dinges]

You'd simply have to type in another command, e.g. "make-full" instead 
of "make".

Come on guys. ;)

Am 13.11.2014 um 16:58 schrieb Vicente Carro:
> As a non-devel user I'm against the idea for exactly the reasons Terry is
> mentioning in his last email. It would be a hell for artists to set the
> compilation options to have the last git version working.
>
> Regards,
> Vicente
>
> On 13 November 2014 15:36, Dalai Felinto <dfelinto at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> +1 to the proposed idea
>> on top of that it would be nice to have a 'make release' or similar
>> option to mimic the settings used in the release build.
>>
>> It's worthy noting that the current CMake default settings are already
>> different than the release options (e.g., BlenderPlayer is not built
>> by default). The idea presented here only brings this a step further.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Dalai
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>>
>>
>> 2014-11-13 13:14 GMT-02:00 AIBlender <aiblender at gmail.com>:
>>> On 13/11/14 14:32, Sergey Sharybin wrote:
>>>> Addressing this: >> I understand the reasoning behind it Sergey, but if
>> new
>>>> people want to build Blender they should get something which is
>> approaching
>>>> a feature complete build, otherwise what is the point of using a Dev
>> build.
>>>> Why would motion tracker developer want to deal with LLVM? Why new
>> modifier
>>>> guy would want to deal with Boost? Why compositor or dependency graph
>> guys
>>>> need to worry about any of external dependencies? This could be
>> continued..
>>>> For sure at some point developer would need to be able to compile
>>>> feature-complete blender, but forcing him to solve all the dependencies
>>>> from the very beginning is really scary for new developers.
>>>>
>>> If for every new dev you started turning off features because they get
>>> confused you end up with a very limited version of Blender.
>>>
>>> Any dev working on advanced features should be able to compile full
>>> versions of Blender, and that Ideally should be because a seasoned Dev
>>> has made Blender work with all feature enabled out of the box.
>>>
>>> Errors when features are turned back on are going to get reported and
>>> need fixing anyways, so may as well keep it working from the very
>>> beginning with all features on.
>>>
>>> Anyways my point is clear on this, sorry if it come across as aggressive
>>> but, turning off features is just hiding problems, and for people like
>>> me it will just mean I turn the features back on a complain a lot more
>>> forcefully if I get errors that run out of control because some feature
>>> was disabled because of some "scared" dev.
>>>
>>> Terry Wallwork
>>>
>>>
>>>
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