Re: [Bf-committers] CMake version bump for blender2.8

2017-08-31 Thread Campbell Barton
On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 8:56 PM, Dalai Felinto wrote: > A small update here, to build cmake is really straightforward. I got > Blender 2.8 to build in 14.04 with no further complications. > So if we rule this Ubuntu as an too-old to maintain OS, it's all good, > and my original email can just be i

Re: [Bf-committers] CMake version bump for blender2.8

2017-08-31 Thread Dalai Felinto
A small update here, to build cmake is really straightforward. I got Blender 2.8 to build in 14.04 with no further complications. So if we rule this Ubuntu as an too-old to maintain OS, it's all good, and my original email can just be ignored. > Switching to CMake 3.x would be nice since (...) Bl

Re: [Bf-committers] CMake version bump for blender2.8

2017-08-31 Thread Campbell Barton
From memory, rule of thumb for Linux support has been to compile on latest releases of major (top ~5 so) Linux distors. Supporting the latest Ubuntu LTS is nice too. Switching to CMake 3.x would be nice since it allows us to remove the dreaded "BLENDER_SORTED_LIBS". On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 6:38 P

Re: [Bf-committers] CMake version bump for blender2.8

2017-08-31 Thread Bastien Montagne
Hi, I don’t see why we'd make install_deps also handle custom installation of cmake! This is turning a bit (a lot) ridiculous. CMake 3.0 is **three** years old alreay! I remember we were switching to recent versions of CMake much, much more quickly back in the days of CMake 2.8 area, as soon

Re: [Bf-committers] CMake version bump for blender2.8

2017-08-31 Thread Dalai Felinto
Hi, Ubuntu 14.04 is "stuck" with CMake 2.8. It's a LTS so they won't upgrade their CMake. And it's still quite inside our 5 year support goal. What exactly do we need from CMake 3.x? If we really need CMake 3.0, can we at least update install_deps.sh to handle cmake as well? Regards, Dalai -- ble

[Bf-committers] CMake version bump for blender2.8

2017-08-20 Thread Jörg Müller
Hi everyone, a discussion about our cmake version has started after I merged audaspace into blender2.8. Audaspace requires cmake 3.0 as opposed to blender's main cmake file which so far requires cmake 2.8. Now since a version bump has been in discussion already a year ago according to Campbe