While a loader that directly downloads from blender.org could be more convenient for the end user, I think that is not necessarily the most important concern of the distro maintainers.. rather, they want bundled libraries to move out of source as much as possible, some of their reasons being along the lines mentioned at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:No_Bundled_Libraries#Why_no_Bundled_Libraries. Apart from which, the article and comments at http://lwn.net/Articles/378865/ seem to make strong suggestions either way.
On the whole, in the interest of code reusability (which in my opinion is an important principle in FOSS, even in the face of 'apparent' impracticality) and security, perhaps we could externally link some of the more standard libraries, without sacrificing end-user convenience too much? (No idea which ones those would be, though.. not even sure if such are there) Regards, Prashant _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers
