Then i think it's fair to state the proposal as following: - We retire old squeeze based glibc-2.11 environment, as it's becoming a PITA to maintain. - We consider glibc-2.19 builds official recommended ones for regular users - We look into bringing CentOS 6 based release environment if there are indeed real studios who needs that and who rely on official builds from blender.org.
On Sun, Oct 2, 2016 at 5:27 PM, Francesc Juhe <[email protected]> wrote: > No, don’t really have any numbers. Not using RHEL nor CentOS here. > Just wanted to point out that one major distro was still on a glibc older > than 2.19 > I agree fully with the initial message, 2.11 is too old, squeeze is > becoming more of a burden to maintain. > 2.19 just seems too much of a jump but have no issues with it either. > Systems here are up to date and I compile blender myself. > > Cheers, > > On 02 Oct 2016, at 17:15, Sergey Sharybin <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > The whole topic here is only about how we compile binaries for > blender.org. > > Everyone will still be able to compile Blender on whatever system they > use. > > It is just becoming real PITA to support such oldie base systems. > > > > To my knowledge Blender's binaries aren't compatible with majority of > RHEL > > used on render farms and studios and their TDs are already compiling > > Blender themselves. So (again, to my knowledge) there is no "regression" > > here. > > > > Personally, i find all this vfxplatforms discussion more a speculation. > Do > > we have some real numbers? Like, are there studios on RHEL who really use > > Blender? Are they managing to run official Blender binaries? > > > > > > On Sun, Oct 2, 2016 at 4:38 PM, Francesc Juhe <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> It’s not really inconsistent, it’s just having those 'bleeding edge' > libs > >> on top of RHEL 6.7 and derivatives as a base, which is old. > >> If vfxplatform was based on latest RHEL, the requirements would be glibc > >> 2.17 but even that would be below 2.19 > >> > >> > >> On 02 Oct 2016, at 16:23, Bastien Montagne <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> > >>> Am not reproaching them to be conservative, but to be inconsistent. On > >>> one side you have bleeding edge things (ptex, openvdb, alembic, and the > >>> hilarious 'lastest' FBX), on the others, years old basis like gcc4.8 or > >>> glibc2.13. Not to mention to ask for a compiler that only has > >>> *experimental* support of required c++ version… > >>> > >>> Note that this would not prevent building blender over glibc2.13 imho, > >>> people just might have to disable some features. Here we are talking > >>> about official builds from Blender themselves only. > >>> > >>> Le 02/10/2016 à 16:08, Brian Savery a écrit : > >>>>> I kind of have serious doubts about a 'large' studio who would not be > >>>>> able to build its own Blender? > >>>>> > >>>>> I would agree, but if blender won't build for centos 6/ Rhel you can > >>>> pretty much guarantee they won't use it, which is unfortunate. > >>>> > >>>> And yes there are definitely some outdated things on that list but it > >>>> definitely is taken seriously in the industry. And as others have > said > >> you > >>>> do see many "conservative" oses. Up until a few releases ago we had to > >>>> provide a rhel4 build of prman if I remember correctly. > >>>> > >>>> Anyway just something to be aware of not trying to throw a monkey > >> wrench in > >>>> anything. > >>>> > >>>> > >>> > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> Bf-committers mailing list > >>> [email protected] > >>> https://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Bf-committers mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> https://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers > >> > > > > > > > > -- > > With best regards, Sergey Sharybin > > _______________________________________________ > > Bf-committers mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers > > _______________________________________________ > Bf-committers mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers > -- With best regards, Sergey Sharybin _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers
