[Pkg-phototools-devel] Request: Update OpenEXR from 1.6.1 to 1.7.0 (July 2010)

[Andreas Metzler]

On 2011-02-10 Dorian Fevrier <fevrier.dorian at yahoo.fr> wrote:
> Hi! I'm a CG artist working on mental ray shaders. :)

> I just would like to ask you if it was possible to update the OpenEXR lib?

> Currently OpenEXR is in version 1.6.1. But the last version on the
> official page is 1.7.0 (July 2010):
> http://www.openexr.com/downloads.html
[...]

Hello,

since this is a hugin reverse dep, I would not want the package to
die. I have pushed some minor packaging fixes in git. However I am not
completely confident in maintaining a C++ library (libgnutlsxx26 does
not count, it has rdeps ;-) ad would therefore apreciate a second pair
of eyes. Anybody willing on pkg-phototools or should I submit a RFH?

Dorian, while there is a new version of openexr available it is not a
"stable" version according to http://www.openexr.com/downloads.html. I
am not familiar with openexr's release policy and therefore do not
know whether they use "stable" as a synonym for "outdated" or "use
this for production environments".

cu andreas

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