Unfortunately, it is our own system.  Not quite as flexible as Rez.

We will look into adding this and submitting a PR.

On Thu, Nov 12, 2020 at 10:10 AM Larry Gritz <[email protected]> wrote:

> By the way, if you are using Rez, "weak references" in your dependencies
> might help.
>
>
> On Nov 11, 2020, at 11:25 PM, Larry Gritz <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Coming back to this...
>
> I totally get why it would be useful to be able to do a build of just the
> Python bindings, on top of an already-built libOpenImageIO (though also a
> little dangerous, you're kind of taking it for granted that they are in
> sync). And for packaging systems, why it's helpful to essentially split the
> core library from the Python. We ran into a similar issue with Rez, where
> it was a PITA that it was pulling Python into the dependency constraint
> list for downstream apps that only wanted OIIO's core library.
>
> I could see maybe a build option (off by default, of course) that would,
> when enabled, essentially let you point it to libOpenImageIO and have it
> just go with the fact that it's already built.
>
> I just don't have time at the moment to do this myself, but if somebody
> else could do it in a way that wasn't terribly intrusive to the build
> system (I'm worried about primarily about preserving its maintainability),
> I would gladly accept a PR that adds this capability.
>
>
> On Oct 21, 2020, at 9:19 AM, Deke Kincaid <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> This is about both efficiency and our dependency chain.  Essentially
> because of the upcoming python 3 move and more and more packages depending
> on OIIO (Material X, USD, etc...). OCIO 1.x does not support python 3 but
> OCIO 2.x does.  If you try to compile both OIIO's python 2 & 3 bindings it
> will fail because of OCIO 1.x's lack of python 3.  I need to compile
> cy2019/cy2020 libraries for both python 2 and 3 so we can write proper
> tests to make sure our updated code works on both python versions.  It
> will be much easier to separate OIIO python bindings from the core library
> so I'm I can lessen the dependency chain and how many times I have to
> recompile the core OIIO library.  Also in our dependency chain, any C
> libraries don't have to needlessly depend on python anymore in this
> situation.  I could technically just build both and not copy one or the
> other into a oiio_python or oiio_core package, so a lot of this is really
> about speed and efficiency (especially around tests).
>
> Excuse my meandering explanation but hopefully, that makes sense.  Alembic
> and MaterialX allow this.  Unfortunately, USD does not.
>
> On Wed, Oct 21, 2020 at 12:04 AM Larry Gritz <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> On Oct 20, 2020, at 7:28 PM, Deke Kincaid <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Is there a way to compile the OIIO python bindings separate from the
>> core libraries?  I don't see an obvious way to turn the core libs off and
>> point to a pre-existing external path for them.
>>
>>
>> It never occurred to me that this would be useful. I always imagined that
>> they would be built together.
>>
>> I assume... that you're trying to add python bindings to an existing
>> install of the libraries only that you can't alter or rebuild?
>>
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