[Bf-committers] Proposal: Building blender using docker.io

[Jeroen Bakker]

Hi all,

I am using install_deps.sh to build blender on Linux systems. It is 
always a tedious work to get Blender compiling again when we upgrade an 
external library. I have solved this trick before using docker.io. the 
last week I started experimenting on using docker.io for compiling 
blender. I succeeded on an ubuntu 14.04 and 15.04 host.

For now I created a proposal for this. My goal is to get more control 
over the software versions. Help developers to stick to their task (what 
is developing code). Make it easier for newbies to create their building 
environment.

For more details please read the proposal at: 
http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/User:Jbakker/Blender_docker

in order to get this project going:
* ok if this is a valid target.
* write documentation about using docker.io for compiling blender.
* write scripts (Dockerfile) to recreate blender docker images
* register these images in a public registry (so other users do not need 
to compile the images themself, but can download them)
*  support from the community in testing.

Regards,
Jeroen