We have a handful of Bullet patches in extern/bullet2/patches. You can look at extern/bullet2/readme.txt for a list of what the patches do.
--Mitchell Stokes On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 4:33 PM, Campbell Barton <[email protected]>wrote: > On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 10:12 AM, Prashant Sohani > <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 > > Just committed a cmake option 'WITH_SYSTEM_BULLET' so distros can use > their own bullet packages (as the gentoo maintainer requested), > > So I think the changes from our side are done, just need to have > bullet updated since it doesn't compile yet with latest stable bullet > in arch-linux (2.81). > (note I did get it to compile with some edits to our source, but those > are just to disable a few areas that failed). > > The CMake options documented not to work yet and marked as advanced to > avoid enabling by accident. > > -- > - Campbell > _______________________________________________ > 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
