Is there a point at which /usr/ports/graphics/blender would just make 2.5 instead of 2.49 then? Or would blender25 be best so blender26 could then be added later too??
On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 1:38 AM, Campbell Barton <[email protected]>wrote: > On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 8:47 PM, pete larabell <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Sorry if this is more a question for BF itself more than the dev list. :) > > > > Now that Blender has pretty much stabilized and it's likely that a full > > release is coming relatively soon, I'd like to make an updated "port" for > > the FreeBSD ports tree. Currently "# /usr/ports/graphics/blender/make > > install" will make 2.49. > > > > My proposal would be to have the port be located as > > /usr/ports/graphics/blender25 > > > > This would solve a lot of issues with myself building with a different > > version of a library than what another user might have, as the ports > system > > would allow for automatic fetching and installation of dependencies. > > > > The source tarball needs a MASTER_SITE to be hosted on. Is this something > > that BF would want on their servers or is it ok/better for me to host it > > myself??? > > > > > > Cheers > > Peter > > When we do releases we should do this but sometimes nobody does it. > > Arch linux package spec also complains of this... > # Apparently, the blender guys refuse to release source tarballs for > # intermediate releases that deal mainly with binaries but incorporate tiny > # minor changes from cvs. Since I'm sick and tired of the urges of users > that > # look for release numbers only we make a messy PKGBUILD that can checkout > cvs > # tags if necessary. > > I'm not sure who's responsible for uploading source for releases, > if nobody else wants to I can make a script to upload exported source > tree and upload on release. > _______________________________________________ > Bf-committers mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers > _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers
