On Thu, January 3, 2013 5:49 am, Ton Roosendaal wrote: > Hi, > > Best commitments are by stakeholders, working on what's in their interest > too :) > I'm not capable of advising or coordinating that. >
My interest is seeing Blender continue to make progress in a Linux environment. The arch and gento package maintainers clearly don't see the value of having bundled libs but IMO it makes things a lot easier for people who don't rely on the distro package maintainers for their updates or people who are not able to keep pace with the latest package updates for whatever reason. For example people who don't have broadband internet or people who are running legacy systems and cannot update to newer distro versions. I doubt there is an easy way to disable bundled libs if compiling for a distro/from source but that seems like the only way to deal with this problem short of making sure that every one who compiles Blender has exactly the same libs installed on their system before they attempt to compile. Part of the reason for bundling libs is to minimise the hassle for the end user. Package maintainers should understand that concept. > -Ton- > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Ton Roosendaal Blender Foundation t...@blender.org www.blender.org > Blender Institute Entrepotdok 57A 1018AD Amsterdam The Netherlands > > On 2 Jan, 2013, at 19:27, Patrick Shirkey wrote: > >> >> On Thu, January 3, 2013 5:04 am, Ton Roosendaal wrote: >>> Hi all, >>> >>> In the past weeks I've noticed Linux package maintainers getting >>> annoyed >>> with Blender. >>> >>> Archlinux - check the comments: >>> https://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit/community.git/tree/trunk/PKGBUILD?h=packages/blender >>> >>> Gentoo rant: >>> http://blog.flameeyes.eu/2012/12/bloody-upstream >>> >>> We're not a typical (nor by origin) Linux project, getting sources >>> built >>> and distributed for Linux distros is not a priority among our active >>> contributors. >>> >>> However, I'd like to see if there's people on this list who like to >>> help >>> out keeping things smooth for Linux distros? Also on Ubuntu Software >>> Center Blender's way behind usually... >>> >> >> >> What kind of commitment are you looking for? >> >> >> >> >> -- >> Patrick Shirkey >> Boost Hardware Ltd >> _______________________________________________ >> Bf-committers mailing list >> Bf-committers@blender.org >> http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers > > _______________________________________________ > Bf-committers mailing list > Bf-committers@blender.org > http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers > -- Patrick Shirkey Boost Hardware Ltd _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list Bf-committers@blender.org http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers