On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 12:30 PM, Larry Gritz <[email protected]> wrote: > So, I put it to all of you: > > * Does anybody still have the need to separately compile the dependencies > rather than use your system libs (and package manager)? > > * Has anybody ever depended on the fact that the "external" packages were > locked down and available to all developers? (I know I haven't, as it turned > out.) > > * Is there any point to keeping the external project going at all, or at this > point should we just delete it and replace with the list of what packages are > needed and where to get them from? > > Put another way, please speak up if you can think of any reason why we > shouldn't just give up and delete the "externals" project.
Don't count my vote for too much since I'm not an direct end user of OIIO, but obviously I'm all for removing anything bundled (compiled/linked against or not) since many linux distro's forbid bundled code. Thanks, Richard _______________________________________________ Oiio-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openimageio.org/listinfo.cgi/oiio-dev-openimageio.org
