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

[Simon Repp]

When I switched from Ubuntu to Fedora it took me about 2 weeks on and
off to get a successful build again, afterwards I had a full working
build but I was 50% down on motivation and 100% out of free time for
that month to get into actual coding again. Who knows what would have
happened in those two weeks if I had actually coded? (and afterwards in
that altered timeline ...!?)

In that sense I really like the idea, though I would prefer the inverse
implementation: 'make' for the full build, 'make simple' (or so) as a
(prominently documented!!) simpler way for dev newcomers to have at hand
if the full build process is discouraging or blocking actual development.

I suggest the inverse implementation because sometimes building the full
thing actually works like a charm (it did for me on Ubuntu), so you'd
get the full thing for free in that case - and initially failing and
retrying can also lead to important discoveries, for instance my 2 week
odyssey to building Blender on Fedora actually revealed a major bug in
the dependency installer script, which I could fix together with
mont29's help then.

Either way it's implemented, thumbs up, I like it!!

On 11/13/2014 12:31 PM, Campbell Barton wrote:
> This is mainly for Linux/BSD developers (releases remain unchanged).
> 
> Its getting increasingly difficult to build Blender on Linux, (LLVM,
> ffmpeg, OpenCollada...) & these issue's can't always be fixed on our
> side.
> 
> With newer developers a failed build with a cryptic error message
> (guys in #blendercoders can't even help with), is quite off putting..
> 
> Proposing a limited feature-set by default with CMake (again official
> builds from blender.org are unchanged)
> 
> https://developer.blender.org/T42569
>