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

[Martijn Berger]

Hi Jeroen,

I think that any and all things that make blender more easy / more
accessible to any group of people could be potentially helpful.
And that container / *a controlled environment* is a great things when
trying to get a better build process, that is also why the linux build of
blender is already build this way.
I think we should not restrict ourselves to < insert popular
containerization solution here >, lets call it docker for now.
https://chimeracoder.github.io/docker-without-docker/#1 is a good
presentation about how (un)special docker is in this regard.
I think if you ask Sergey he can provide you with a tarball of the current
chroot used to build..
You could just add some docker sprinkles to it and have some of your goals
achieved.

Regards,

Martijn









On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 9:49 AM, Jeroen Bakker <j.bakker at atmind.nl> wrote:

> 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
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