[Bf-committers] OpenEXR and OpenImageIO library bump

[Sergey Sharybin]

Upgraded libraries for linux. Didn't do anything special for ptex tho, that
would need to have dedicate investigation anyway.

On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 8:15 PM, Martijn Berger <martijn.berger at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi everyone.
>
> I would like to propose bumping OpenEXR to 2.2 and OpenImage IO to 1.4.16.
>
>
> OpenImageIO had a number of stability and compilation fixes particularly
> for msvc 2013 . newer and older versions of boost and static PTEX
> compilation.
>
> full changelog here ->
>  https://raw.githubusercontent.com/OpenImageIO/oiio/RB-1.4/CHANGES
>
>
> OpenEXR 2.2 has faster PIZ compression and 2 new algorithms for lossy
> compression by Dreamworks.
>
> In the case of OpenImageIO it is really a minor bump and there seem to be
> no issues based on my own testing on windows and linux.
> In the case of OpenEXR it is a minor version bump but I think having
> maximal file reading compatibility is worth the effort it takes to bump. (
> which is also not much based on my personal testing ).
>
> Attached is a patch for install_deps.sh that builds these versions.
>
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With best regards, Sergey Sharybin